There are still a few spots available in Sandi Woods' class at Lace at Sweet
Briar! The brochure shows her Fishies, which is the course she has prepared
for newcomers in her class, but people who have worked with Sandi before will
have an opportunity to discuss with her beforehand what pattern
I agree with Maureen who stated Sometimes you have to live with an imperfect
sample as long
as the planned piece is perfect. After all, there is no point
in keep undoing a sample
and being put off forever.
I try very hard to
tell lacers - it is your practice piece - do not unlace..if you
If a sample is a *sample*, rather than a
sample-which-I-can-also-use-as-a-bookmark, then mistakes and changes of mind
left in are more useful than
mistakes corrected. So unless there is a mistake which is stopping you going
forward, leave them in place. Even errors such as leaving two
I have been taught by a variety of tutors (not speaking about lace here) and
felt that they are probably good at their subject but no good at teaching.
Others just can teach,
On here we hear the praise and the joy that comes across from so many
people who have attended classes with people who
Every student has different expectations from a class/tutor. Some are truly
dedicated like the Japanese students but some come for a day out whilst others
want to run before they can walk. Others may ask why doesn't mine look like
yours but don't touch their lace at home, from one lesson to
I agree, a teacher must coax a student along, especially in their early
days.When I first started teaching I was told to give praise as well as
criticism and this is what I do, especially to the new students but also to
students who are learning something new. A carrot is better than a
but it might be worth
considering that your students might have been damaged by a
previous experience.
Happened to me with one: it appeared she could not bear at all with undoing.
If I had known I would have fiddled something but even the first time
appeared to be fatal. Lesson learnt by me:
lace@arachne.com
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [lace] Lace classes
Love it Joy!!! So... does this mean that if the gorblach doesn't look
perfect (which, of course, we know it will) one can always'
callifudge' as Maureen on this list would say LOL
And please can
Sometimes you have to live with an inperfect sample as long as the planned
piece is perfect. After all, there is no point in keep undoing a sample
and being put off for ever. It is a case of a 'happy medium' and I would
rather have lacemakers making lace than lose them (after all they
Just before my lessons stopped I began learning to make Flanders lace and
worked a couple of strips of the different ground. After I took the pins
out I found an error but by then I was at the bottom and had been cutting it
off. I have left that in my folder to remind myself of how to work it
Wow! After reading these horror stories, I feel doubly blessed to have had
such
a good teacher.
There were supposed to be two of us in the class,
but the other woman dropped
out due to having to work. So I got the benefit
of having a one-on-one
experience. My teacher, Lynn Swedenborg,
Sometimes you have to live with an inperfect sample as long
as the planned piece is perfect.
After all, there is no point in keep undoing a sample
and being put off for ever.
Maureen
I totaly agree. I just had to learn that some people are putt off very very
quickly. My patience did
. Expecting
up to 4 inches of the stuff. But it will melt tomorrow, as the high will be
40.
-Original Message-
From: Jo
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 11:08 AM
To: 'Maureen Bromley' ; 'Arachne List email'
Subject: RE: [lace] Lace classes
Sometimes you have to live with an inperfect sample
When the pupil won't wear the glasses she needs to see the lace (even though
they have been prescribed for her, and she owns them) and won't practise
between lessons (so that she can remember what the three basic stitches are)
then it is no longer the teacher's fault, however willing the
We are adult learners. Surely learning lace 'live' is two-way, both
teacher and student!
I'd hate to think the onus for success/progress is entirely on the teacher!
(sometimes one's only teacher appears as a book ;)
On 10/29/11, Lyn Bailey lynrbai...@desupernet.net wrote:
accordingly. After
Message-
From: Jo
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 11:08 AM
To: 'Maureen Bromley' ; 'Arachne List email'
Subject: RE: [lace] Lace classes
Sometimes you have to live with an inperfect sample as long
as the planned piece is perfect.
After all, there is no point in keep undoing a sample
From: Jo yhgr@xs4all.nl
snipped
Happened to me with one: it appeared she could not bear at all with undoing.
If I had known I would have fiddled something but even the first time
appeared to be fatal. Lesson learnt by me: _allways_ ask do you want to
live
of my bobbins can be found at my
website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/
From: Sue Babbs sueba...@comcast.net
To: lace@arachne.com
Sent: Saturday, 29
October 2011, 16:47
Subject: Re: [lace] Lace classes
When the pupil won't
wear the glasses she needs to see the lace
-
From: Sue Babbs sueba...@comcast.net
Sent: Oct 29, 2011 11:47 AM
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: Re: [lace] Lace classes
When the pupil won't wear the glasses she needs to see the lace (even though
they have been prescribed for her, and she owns them) and won't practise
between lessons (so
Jo yhgr@xs4all.nl wrote:
Lesson learnt by me: _allways_ ask do you want to live with an imperfect
sample? After a few times you know the attitude.-
My teacher always said, If it was me She told us if the problem was
close enough that we didn't mind going back that far, by all
I have one more teacher horror story, from a workshop not lessons. One member
of my guild is blind from birth, but she makes great lace. A guild member
pricks her pattern and she turns it upside down. The pinholes are bumps on
that side and she can tell where each pin goes.
The group hired
Hi Nita
I have not much to add to Lorelei's suggestions.
I started tutoring with a longer lacing history but without previous
education experience. I started with a single newbee and slowly the number
grew. I took rather a coaching approach than a schoolish approach, except
for the first one or
On 10/26/11 10:59 AM, Bob Ross wrote:
There are two ladies in town with way more experience
then me so I'm may just suggest the weavers contact them.
You might be the better teacher, because you remember what's
hard and what you did about it. We experienced workers tend
to say things like
Love it Joy!!! So... does this mean that if the gorblach doesn't look
perfect (which, of course, we know it will) one can always'
callifudge' as Maureen on this list would say LOL
And please can you explain how to frammis the wilberstan??
Sue
On 28 Oct 2011, at 14:46, Joy Beeson
Ah yes
This reminds me of a teacher I had many years ago. I was trying to make
tallies, and asked her how they were done. She looked at me and said, Well,
you just DO it. Needless to say, I had to find a better teacher.
C
Clay Blackwell
Lynchburg, VA. USA
Joy Beeson
Ah yes, speaking of bad teaching . . .
Once, long ago, I joined a class to learn Modern Greek. At the first
session, the teacher listened carefully as each student introduced
themselves to the group. Then she sat back, glared around the room, and
said: Thank you. Well, now I know which of
I was not going to comment on this, but after Linda's sad story below, I
decided to do so. I am still learning the basics and my two teachers (Janet
Jo) have been nothing BUT patient neither have ever given me the feelings
Clay and Linda got from their teachers. I would not be where I am
Hi everyone
Jo wrote:
What took me by surprise at first was a reflex when letting them make tapes.
When the worker returns, they tended to make mirrored stitches,
That is exactly what I did at my first lesson ;)
(lo these years gone by...)
From Joy:
to say things like All you have to do is
...@comcast.net; Arachne List email lace@arachne.com
Sent: Friday,
28 October 2011, 17:07
Subject: Re: [lace] Lace classes
Ah yes
This
reminds me of a teacher I had many years ago. I was trying to make tallies,
and asked her how they were done. She looked at me and said, Well, you just
DO
To: Arachne List email lace@arachne.com
Sent:
Friday, 28 October 2011, 17:51
Subject: Re: [lace] Lace classes
Ah yes,
speaking of bad teaching . . .snipped She was so unpleasant to me after I
got high marks in a class competition, beating her particular pet, that I
decided to stop fighting and dropped out
I was teaching a half-day tally workshop some years ago, and watched as a
left-handed lady worked her tally normally, but with the worker in her left
hand - but she was tensioning up on the right side - with her left arm
crossed far over to the right.
She said she was so left-handed that her
I have been approached regarding some lace classes for one of the
weaving guilds in our area. I've been making lace for the last 18
months. I would have no problem with teaching the basics. There are
two ladies in town with way more experience then me so I'm may just
suggest the weavers
Nita
You will probably hear several quite different points of view on your
question, but here is mine. The first problem is that you nearly always don't
get as far as you want to in a first class. So the major problem is to choose
something that students can actually finish. And the class must
Before we advertise elsewhere, I would like to let the Arachneans know that
we have a couple of vacancies in each of two courses at the end of this year.
These full board, residential courses are held in a 3 star, Best Western
hotel in Dover (England).
The first is the weekend of 6th, 7th and
I completed the Adult and Further Education Teaching qualification several
years ago, which I passed, but when it came to receiving my certificate they
refused to give it to me until I passed GCSE maths! Apparently I was
supposed to have had either this or maths o'level when I enrolled for the
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