In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sue Babbs
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>For interest's sake, I've just dug out my guide handbook from 1968, and 
>found the badge requirements:

It's a bit daunting, isn't it - even having passed City & Guilds Part 2,
I could do clauses 1, 3a,b,d and e (could do c but it wasn't something I
enjoyed doing when we learnt how) and 4a (I hate knitting, and of the
Irish techniques, only learnt the rosettes when Mom taught me to crochet
- my netting didn't really get further than the initial "hammock", and a
better square to show the technique - the piece of darned net we did was
on a commercially produced square net). 

But, as for clause 2, we were never taught how to mend lace - and if you
think about it, today's society tends to shy away from mending anything
- I wonder if, with the trend towards recycling, mending skills (for all
sorts of things, not just lace) are something that should be revived?
 
-- 
Jane Partridge


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