I was thinking about this last night, and actually, for publicity purposes,
I'd shy away from the idea that lace-making is terribly intellectual.
I had some friends visit my house, and you can't avoid my various crafts.
My friends looked at them, and said "My, you must be so clever to do all
this. I couldn't do this, I'm not clever enough."
Mmm... I voiced the very same objection when people were pushing me to learn to drive (at the same time, as a matter of fact, as I was teaching myself the first lace stitches <g>). One person responded: "Your cleaning lady drives, doesn't she? If she were smarter than you are, she'd have finished high school and wouldn't be scrubbing toilets". 5yr old children can -- and had been -- taught to make lace. That's not because they're particularly clever; it's because they are *curious* about "what happens if..." I think people who are (or could be) in Mensa weren't necessarily born with high IQs; they were born with *decent* IQs, had an itch to find out "how come", and "scratched" it.
And, once you show them that the basics are easy (if a 5-yr old can do it...), who can resist the lure of being able to preen about one's superiour intellectual powers in getting beyond the basics? <g>
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Formerly of Warsaw, Poland
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