Liz, you said it best. I was fortunate and had two of the best instructors and the bestest mentor when i started out. my mentor taught herself Milanese for me to learn from her. what better foundation could anyone get? i will never forget either person and have remained in contact even after moving many miles away. i think so fondly on what i was gifted. i have only had a minimal encounter with future lacers so far, but i try to gift as i was gifted. thank you, Stormy, Honor and Denise.
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 10:32 AM, The Lacebee <[email protected]>wrote: > Funny how a thoughtless word can hurt and influence us so much when we are > starting out. I saw a pattern in a book and went to my lace teacher with > it. I said that it would be perfect as a present for my mother as a piece > for her dolls house. It was pattern 106b from Pamela Nottingham's bucking > lace book. > > My teacher said with a well remembered sneer, "oh you can't do that for > ages yet as you have to master torchon before you move into bucks." > > I asked about honiton and she could nearly get the words out; "honiton? > Not for years yet." > > Let's see, I made my first piece of honiton 6 weeks later and that bucks > piece? That would be the one that took me 2 hours to make last week. > > As a teacher it is your duty to guide and encourage every student to make > the best of their abilities and ensure that they enjoy and continue in > their chosen craft. To tell someone that they can't do something now or > ever or to disparage what they have done is unforgivable. What is worse, > such teachers take money off people to teach them. > > If, as Adele did, someone makes a piece of lace that has good tension, > looks like it should do and has taken effort to make, then the right > response should be 'that is beautiful'. > > Kind Regards > > Liz Baker > > > On 20 Oct 2013, at 17:35, Adele Shaak <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I remember as a very new lacemaker, being haughtily told that a piece of > Honiton I had made was actually something else (Whithof? Brussels?) because > of the way I had done a join. I had taken the pattern from the "Devonia" > book, which didn't have the best instructions, and I'd had to figure out > that bit as best I could. I had no idea that my little efforts had 'ruined' > the lace. I thought it looked nice. > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to > [email protected]. Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ > -- Hugs, Lin and the Mali *I just realized I am so old, I have forgotten I have been there and done that.* - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
