In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Helen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > However, >craft just isn't something that a lot of young people do any more. I've >got a 11 year-old Guide who I know has never made a pompom before. Possibly because it is far less hassle for the schools/parents to buy the ready made ones, and also, with the lack of shops selling knitting wool, the materials are not easily to hand. However, I used to find out what they had never done before and plan it into the programme where possible - hence guides who had never been on a train before had a day out, including a five mile sponsored walk (together with the other company I was assisting at the time), travelling by five trains and two buses! (Day Rover tickets were cheap in the early 1980s!). I learnt to make the basic stitches of lace on a County Guiders' Training Day in March 1984 (when I was 27) - went to college to learn, five years later, when my younger daughter was two, (her sister was born in October 84) with the intention of passing on what I had learned to the guides. Fifteen years later, I'm teaching adults (having retired from guiding in April 1994, after 19.5 years, after I had started doing my C&G in lace).
> Also, if >someone tried to do a demonstration, the chances are that the only hall >they'd be able to get would be a church hall or a community centre - >neither of which often seem particularly enticing places. A friend and I go out demonstrating at Craft Fairs (next one is Doncaster on 3rd April), but if I travel by train for any distance, I take my travel pillow and work on the train. If I go on a weekend course of any kind, I take my pillow to work on in the evening (usually in the lounge or bar area! - this led to two absolute beginners taking the course I led a week or so ago). Quite often it is lace being demonstrated in holiday areas (Malta, Belgium, etc) that gets the interest, even if it is years before the student takes it up - my 85 year old student, who started last April, had seen lace being made in Honiton when her son was 16 and said she wanted to learn - he remembered, and last year, on holiday in Germany, bought her the equipment, this led to her finding my class. Don't rule out older learners! > A lot of people have said to me that they don't have the >patience to make lace, My stock answer to that one is that patience is for the things you don't want to do, like ironing or dusting, you don't need patience to do the things that interest you. Both of my daughters have made some lace, but neither has kept it up - maybe later in life they will come back to it, in late teens/early twenties there are many other demands on their time. -- Jane Partridge -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.4 - Release Date: 18/03/2005 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
