Lorelei, I think we all feel like dills at times when we're doing things in public. I altered a pattern once in order to make it easier for the students to establish the basics of the piece before they tackled a more complicated technique. However, I didn't revise the starting instructions - and discovered in the class that, because the start was so different, I should've added two rows of pinholes at the top instead of one.
And I was in New Zealand teaching the not-quite-released Lace8 programme when I discovered that some people, using older laptops with smaller screen resolutions, couldn't access all the buttons on the toolbars. The programmer had assumed that anyone with a smaller screen resolution would be able to access the buttons a different way - but I didn't know that way at the time, so I hadn't tested it, and found out that it didn't work! I felt so terrible about it all, and couldn't get onto the programmer either because he was away on a cruise somewhere! Hopefully our students accept us as human beings and don't hold a grudge! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) But I can honestly also recall a major gaffe of my own. I was supposed to give a lace identification lecture using my own projector. When I got there I found out the bulb had burned out. A local woman came to the rescue and went out and found a replacement. I think, in the end, they enjoyed the lecture. But I sure was an idiot that day. Lorelei - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
