I completely agree with many points on here. I started lessons thinking
that if I had the first 4 all day classes which was actually the equivalent
of 10 weeks at 2 hours per week, I expected to understand how to prepare the
pillow and the bobbins and do the stitches to get started and then I could
go back to the book I didn't understand very well, <g>
It was soon clear I needed more than that. By the end of my first 4
lessons I had two tiny bits of unpresentable trial pieces and a pattern to
try (tape bells). I did one, beginning on one lesson working at home and
taking it back to the last lesson for help with part of it. I did manage a
presentable bell (expected it to look terrible looking now but its OK:-) I
was hooked and changed to a different teacher and class which was 2 hour per
week for 10 week term and did about 4 years until she retired. The two hour
lessons suited me much better I could learn a bit, go home and practise and
get back the following week for a recheck, and the next bit. I managed to
work many pieces during the course of my time with her. If someone had told
me it was Very challenging I might never have gone. If someone had told me
I would need many more lessons than the first four, I might not have gone.
I am so pleased that I did.
I dont consider myself a quick learner, I need the basics well and a good
understanding of that. I can read instructions time and time again,
sometimes understanding and sometimes not.
When I first learned I used to spend many hours looking through the books I
had looking and it like a road map, learning which stitch was done first and
where next. I would photocopy bits of pattern very big and spend time
putting lines in where I thought the pattern went from piece to piece. It
has helped me work out things without others being around to advise me.
Sue T
It is interesting to note that two of the class descriptions emphasize the
simplicity of making bobbin lace.
I completely understand the necessity for quelling the fear that most
people
feel when they contemplate learning bobbin lace, since overcoming this
rather formidable obstacle is necessary if you are going to have a class
at all.
Personally, I have talked a lot of people into trying it with such
soothing
words. I have also been in classes where people arrive absolutely
convinced that
once they learn the equivalent of a knit and a purl, or a single and
double
crochet, they will be off on their way to making table cloths such as
those
that adorned their grandmothers' homes. When reality hits home, it can be
rather ugly. I am thinking of two people in particular. But after the
initial
realization that it was not yards of lace, but rather inches that they
would be
making, they did stay on.
Of course, many of us, self included, are in an age group such that, by
the
time we can pursue bobbin lace, we are saying, "I used to be a fast
learner."
:-(
Devon
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