I went to a demonstration and the lady giving the talk said "you can't learn lacemaking from a book, you need a teacher"
I had 6 lessons and made two things. A strip of white cloth stitch 3mm wide and 30cm long and a strip of half stitch the same length. It was a though she didn't want us to progress. Then I was in foyles bookshop, in charring cross road and I found Brigitte Cook's Practical skills in bobbin Lace. So for the next year, I used that book and two others. Pam Nottingham's Bucks Lace and Pam Robinson's manual of Bedfordshire lace. At the end of that year, I found a local group and two of the ladies encouraged me to try free lace and honiton. The rest, as they say, is history. Because I train people for a living, I understand how important it is to find the right way to help them learn. If a student asks the same question again and again, you have to find another way to explain it and patiently show them again and again. Either you are not explaining it in a way they can understand or it may be that because they haven't had time between lessons to practice that they have simply forgotten. Until the skill embeds, you have to support them. Kind Regards Liz Baker > On 21 Oct 2013, at 02:44, "Jack and Mariann" <[email protected]> wrote: > > As far as teaching......I went to a demonstration and the woman doing bobbin > lace told me you can't learn on your own. - 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/
