Thank you all for your wonderful reflections regarding teaching lace.
I just finished my first teaching of beginner lace using Gillian Dye's
Beginning Bobbin Lace book. I had 7 students, including one with
macular degeneration and one that had had 2 strokes. I discovered that
some students are happy just learning the bookworm (lady with 2
strokes was very happy doing them and stopped coming when we moved on
to the next bookmark); some are happy with just a plain cloth stitch
bookworm without the extra spaces - twisted worker in the middle-(the
gal with vision problems). These new students were very happy just
taking their time with the projects and working at their own pace. I
had thought we would get farther along in the book but with just 3
lessons, they got just so far and were happy staying there and getting
comfortable with the basic stitches. We formed a weekly group and
named ourselves The Laughing Lacers of Whidbey Island. So now I have
some people to lace with, which I could not find before! Marilyn
Jensen, Whidbey Island, WA where there is a grey whale feeding in our
backyard. (the Puget Sound)
PS Thanks for the answers to the question about stiffening lace!
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