I tried to send my comments on this discussion but my email was rejected by the arachne server as spam! Editorial comment on my comment perhaps... :-) Dec 8 at 2:05 PM I think there must be a huge amount of variation among people, since there are different cognitive styles. I didn't find bobbin lace difficult to learn at all and learned mostly from books, but I'm still having trouble with any but the simplest patterned knitted lace (which I'm also learning from books). I learned tatting from a book, which is supposed to be hard to do, but I can't really do needlelace--not because I don't understand it but because I find the tensioning and making the stitches even very difficult. So there's lots of variation among cognitive styles combined with variation in the type of dexterity one has. When I think about it, I think the answer to Devon's question actually is that bobbin lace isn't any harder to learn than knitting, if one is comparing stockinette stitch with a tape of cloth stitch, maybe even a little easier for the slight majority of people (guessing here!). So that's my 2 cents/pence worth. Nancy Connecticut, USA On Sunday, December 8, 2013 1:33 PM, Lyn Bailey <[email protected]> wrote:
Devon wrote: >So, if it is only two stitches, like knitting, why is it so hard to learn? > >Lace is not necessarily that hard to learn. - 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/
