On Apr 20, 2008, at 8:33, Nancy Nicholson wrote:
I am a novice at lace making and find it quite hard going at times. I
do have
a tutor but it is only every couple of weeks at present which makes it
a long
time when you need advice.
That's where Arachne comes in handy -- for those in-between times. You
still get some delay in response but 24-48 hours is a lot shorter than
2 weeks :)
I am going through a book at the moment on my own and have become
unstuck again!!
As more and more people have all the tech-toys at their fingertips, you
can ask more specific questions and, the responses you'll get
(privately, in addition to the verbal ones here), things like scans of
diagrams of a particular problem, or photos of similar laces to compare
-- are likely to be as good as a lesson with a tutor.
Books are a great way to learn; I had been making lace for 4 years,
just from books, before I ever saw lace being made by others (at my
first workshop). Books force you to answer questions for yourself, and
those are the answers which you're likely to remember much longer than
those which had been "handed" to you by a teacher or a fellow
lacemaker. OTOH, answering all questions by yourself can result in
re-inventing a lot of wheels (I'm a queen of those re-invented wheels
<g>), which, in a long run, is a waste of good lacemaking time.
Reading your emails on how knowledgeable you all are is a little off
putting in contributing so this may be the last you will hear from me
in a
while!!!!!
Please, continue to post now, that you've taken the first step and
de-lurked! Today, you'll ask; tomorrow, you'll answer :)
*All of us* had more questions than answers to begin with, even those
who sound like "know it all" now (I joined Arachne in June of '95; two
months after the list started). And all of us still run into a problem
or two once in a while, which we need help with. One of the most
fascinating things about BL is that there seems to be no end to
discovery; you're *always* running into new puzzles and learning new
tricks.
As Arachne membership has grown (when I joined, there were 50 of us; I
think the number is in thousands now), so has the cumulative "pool of
knowledge". The same question as asked 3 years ago, may elicit
different answers today -- profiting *all of us*.
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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