________________________________ From: Jo <[email protected]> <snipped> >Happened to me with one: it appeared she could not bear at all with undoing. >If I had known I would have fiddled something but even the first time >appeared to be fatal. Lesson learnt by me: _allways_ ask "do you want to >live with an imperfect sample"? After a few times you know the attitude. I was wandering about at the lace day today and a newbie had made a mistake. Instead of asking if she wanted to undo the mistake (it woud have taken about 30 minutes) her teacher /helper just said to carry on 'but it will be a bit out at the shape at the end and won't look right'. I walked away before I got annoyed. I know people hate to undo things but I learnt alot by 'making lace backwards' as by deconstructing something you often have a lightbulb moment where you go 'ah - that's how it goes together'. As hubby is a trainer too, I told him about the incident and the first thing that he said was 'but you learn from making it backwards'. We do not undo in our household we make things backwards and I'm sticking to it. The other thing that hubby said is that, yes, it gets you out of the hole that you are in but in years to come when you look at the piece that you made you want to have done the best that you can and be proud of it. I'm with him on that one.
Kind Regards Liz Baker [email protected] My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
