But then, there is the fact that lacemaking as experienced by different people is a different thing. In my lace group there was a person who felt that the most enjoyable thing about lacemaking was that you followed a pattern and the pattern told you exactly what to do, requiring no decision making on your part. She mostly made torchon lace. She seemed to enjoy the rhythmic manipulation of the bobbins according to a prescribed pattern. Alternatively, I felt it was the vast potential for decision making, design and innovation that was so interesting about lace. I tended to prefer part laces, maybe because they are easier to design in. (Not that I am any great designer.) At one point I said at a meeting that I found it frustrating that in a continuous lace you worked one side until you came to a point where you didn't have a waiting pair, and then you had to work the other side up to that point, and had to keep switching back. Another member, not the one mentioned previously, looked at me in surprise and said, "But that's what's fun about it." Devon
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