And the connection is deeper still - our Mum was the first one to start classes, but at the same time without knowing she was going to classes, I started teaching myself from a part work, Golden Hands Crafts (still one of my favourite reference "books", everything you can think of is in there). After a couple of weeks I found out about Mum going to class, and we both bought the only lace book we could find, Margaret Maidment's "Hand Made Bobbin Lace Work".
Having finished the lace in Golden Hands, I then ventured into Maidment and can remember crying tears of frustration at not being able to start a new piece. I would phone Mum and she would take her book to class and tell her teacher that I was stuck just *there*, and the poor teacher would try to think up what I might have done wrong, and then Mum would try to explain it to me over the phone. We only discovered afterwards that the teacher was only half a page ahead of her class! Mum was an adult education teacher (dressmaking, knitting, crochet and general handicraft classes) at the same centre as Pat Read, and got the last place in her class. After a year she pursuaded Pat to consider me (as an extra student in a full class) and I had to talk myself in. When Pat asked who I had studied with and I told her I had taught myself so far there was an ominous silence, but she let me join and the rest, as they say, is history. On her next trip home, Malvary saw both Mum and me making lace and there was the third one hooked. Jacquie - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
