In effect, though, she was right. Once you know which move is cross, and
which is twist, then by using combinations of those two moves you can do
anything - even a tally or picot. Once you know the sound that letters
of the alphabet make, you can start to put them together to make words -
same principle. You might know the sounds, but it takes a little bit
longer to learn to speak the language... same goes for lace, you know
the moves, but you need to be able to read or interpret the pattern to
know where to make them. As to teaching from there - start with the
basic two moves - ie, half stitch, then gradually progress to cloth and
ground stitches. Simples! Lace isn't as complicated as some
demonstrators try to make out - more to make themselves seem superior
because they can do it - whereas the aim of the demonstration is to show
that most people, if they try, can make lace. Not everyone will take to
it, though, so we shouldn't expect them to.
In message <[email protected]>, [email protected] writes
At one point someone came to a lace class that we were having and said
that she had been told that there were really only two stitches, cross and
twist and that after you learned how to do them you could do anything.
We were
a little stunned and the teacher didn't know how to proceed with this idea.
Devon
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Jane Partridge
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