In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carol Adkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Hi Helen and Spiders, > >I used to be a Guide Captain, running a very successful group of girls in >Hertfordshire but, just before I finshed, the Bobbin Lace proficiency badge >was discontinued.
Rooting through some things a week or so ago, I remembered someone saying something about this recently, and the date given for the badge's decline was definitely within the time that I was a Guide Guider. (1974-1994) However, although I'm sure somewhere I have a copy of the old Guide handbook (when the badges were included in it) I can't put my hand on it at the moment. From the 1988 version, through to the one that was current when I left guiding in 1994, the only mention of lace was the clause in the Craft Badge - "make a piece of lace". I gather that there have been major changes since 1994, and I'm not sure if guides still do badges - if so, and if the Craft Badge still exists, do we have a current Guider in the UK who can tell us whether the clause is still there? As for how I got into lacemaking in the first place - it was an option given on a (Staffordshire) County Guiders' Training Day - at the Edward Orme School in Newcastle-under-Lyme - in March, 1984 - I got home full of enthusiasm, "can I have a pillow for my birthday?". DH bought me the pillow (rectangular, straw, with my current project on at the moment!) but within a month or so I couldn't use it - our eldest daughter was born that October. It was then five years before I saw a "lacemaking for beginners" class at the local college, with a crèche able to take my (then) two year old younger daughter (at 18 months she was jealous of her big sister being able to go to playgroup - they had to be 3 for that) and the rest, as they say, is history. I went into lace with the aim of having something new to pass on to guides - I never dreamt at the time that I would eventually be teaching adults! -- Jane Partridge -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.8/22 - Release Date: 17/06/2005 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
