When I started learning from a book after a visit to England where both my mum and Jacquie had started. I bought 6 pairs of bobbins and started with the lessons in Golden Hands. When I'd been working on my own for some weeks I heard about a class in my own town with a teacher from Toronto. When she saw what I'd done she said "It's not very good is it. Of course, you are using cotton and you can really only make good lace using linen thread". Funnily most of the people who took the course with her were not able to progress with the bookmark she had started them on because she hadn't explained the process adequately and had the students working pin to pin not letting them know stitch names or what they were doing. I worked on from the books and was then able to help them to finish their project after we formed our first Ottawa Lace group. Its replacement lace group, The Ottawa Guild of Lacemakers has just celebrated its 25th anniversary.
Malvary on Peterborough where I'm spending a few days away on holiday to see the beautiful fall colour > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [lace] learning on your own > Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:29:27 +0100 > > Hi Arachnids, > > That is as appalling as some of the students in my class who had a previous > teacher who would never show or teach them how to start or finish a piece > nor how to turn a corner (she used to take their pillow home with her and > did it for them to "help" them). She also put them completely off doing > picots or leaves with her comments - they do their own starts and finishes > now and do leaves/picots/corners as and when needed; although one is still > reluctant to do picots. I am just thankful that she could not kill their > enthusiasm for lace altogether. > > I feel that they would have been better off learning from a book, although > that is not for everybody either. > > Happy lace making. > > Joepie in East Sussex, UK where it is raining hard again. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Elizabeth Ligeti > Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 3:31 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [lace] learning on your own > > Up in the Top End (of Australia), <..... .......> (1980s), I remember > someone > looking at my Beds lace I > was working on, and wishing she knew enough to move on to Beds and Bucks Pt. > laces. Her teacher was keeping her on little torchon edges, - and she told > me she had "only been learning for 3 or 4 years, so was not knowledgeable > enough to move to another lace yet" !! I am Still appalled about that, and > have never forgotten it! Exploitation, - like the "bums on seats in class" > comment. > > Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz. > > - > 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/ - 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/
