Hi Nancy Well, I like diagrams. I was taught using only colored diagrams (I didn't learn cross and twist - I was taught "1, 2, 3, 4" - and other terms until I stumbled over other lacemakers later in my learning career, 32+ years ago - gosh, it's been quite awhile . . ) My teacher was Ruth Hough-Christiansen who was Danish and trained in Denmark - she had a "certificate" of which she was very proud. When I purchased my first book - J. Nyrop-Larsen's prickings and Diagrams, and I cannot remember the title - she had her husband phone me and say that if I thought I could learn from a book, then she would not teach me anymore. You see, I had to pay her for each pricking and each colored diagram, which she had drawn out (as she had been taught in Denmark, I suppose) and she wanted that bit extra, I guess, in addition to the $20 per hour fee. (In 1978 dollars.) All that rubbish aside (funny how these memories surface when bidden) I DO like diagrams, I no longer NEED them all the time, but I never go out of my way to turn one down . . Cheers, Alison
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