And I should, of course, mention needlelace as Nenia Lovesey wrote her first book in the late 1970s, she signed my copy at a lace day in Essex in 1982. Although I didn't try needlelace until after then.
Maureen e Yorks UK. > On 26 Mar 2018, at 17:42, Maureen <maur...@roger.karoo.co.uk> wrote: > > I too started lacemaking in The early 70s but I had seen it in Golden Hands > and found a local handicraft group that were putting a class on. Well I was > going for embroidery classes at the time, but moved over to the lace class, > supposedly for one term but which continued for a lot longer, to learn lace. > Then the County Adult Education classes, I think, started in the mid 70s but > also Doreen Wright wrote a book on lacemaking and the Lace guild was started > in 1976. Suppliers then found that people wanted bobbins, I bought my first > ones from Doreen Fudge who was at Luton Museum, and then lace days started > which I believe encouraged more Lacemakers, which encouraged more classes. I > was also a member of IOLI about 1974 and only didn't rejoin when the Lace > Guild started. I started to teach lacemaking when the local teacher had a > waiting list but didn't have enough hours or days in The week to start > another class, but that was about 1980 I think. And it was very much a cas! e ! > of being one step ahead of the students at the time because there were gaps > in the beginning laces I had somehow skipped! > > Incidentally I learnt to knit whilst in primary school, was taught > dressmaking at school and by my mother in law, and taught myself to crochet > in 1970 as I wanted to crochet myself a dress. Suffice to say it was started > at the top and very short! > > Maureen Bromley > E Yorks UK > > - > 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/ - 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/
