On Mar 6, 2007, at 23:27, bevw wrote:
For teaching very beginners, use the best you can find for materials,
else
they are fighting with substitutes for the real thing, and that can be
off-putting.
"Countersigned with both hands" as we used to say in Poland:) I
couldn't agree more; on top of
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Some thoughts and free advice:
For teaching very beginners, use the best you can find for materials, else
they are fighting with substitutes for the real thing, and that can be
off-putting.
If you don't have many in the class, you could have two people sharing real
lace (cookie) pillows - one perso
One trick that I use for classes like this is to use chopsticks cut in half
for bobbins. If I have time I have my DH drill holes in the bottom of them
and stick safety pins in them to keep the "bobbins" from rolling on the
"pillow". I usually use a cheap piece of foam for a pillow
Shere'e
Seattle,
Hi Everyone,
I would really love some help. I have been asked to teach a beginner's lace
class for some of the ladies at my church.
I would like to give them a very simple pattern that could be finished in one
session.
My problem is the only inexpensive item I can think of to use
I can't remember where I got my Arachne pin from - probably one year when I
bought an Arachne commemorative bobbin. Is there going to be one this year,
and if so, who will be making them?
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Hi. The pins were sold by JoAnn Pruitt a few years
ago, along with the Arachne commemoratives. Maybe
she'll answer regarding whether any are still left.
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Great Lakes Lace Group is sponsoring a workshop in Grand Rapids, MI on April
20-22, 2007. Teachers are Holly Van Sciver - Bedfordshire, Louise Colgan -
Hungarian Tape Lace, Trenna Ruffner - Floral Buckspoint, Mark Meyer - Tatting
and Diane Willett - knitted lace. The venue is the Crown Plaza H
I know this should go to the lace chat site but I don't have an email
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Outi from Finland wrote that she would be wearing her Arachne pin when she
visits the Bowes Museum and Harrogate Lace Fair. I wondered what that was
and does someone sell them.
Also how do I post to the a
Hello Karen
That surprises me - I've only ever seen one pattern (modern torchon)
with a working angle as steep as that, and it was an experimental
design as part of a City & Guilds exam course. Also maybe some of the
very distorted computer generated patterns might have small areas like
that
I got that spam, but I get quite a few textiles related spams anyway,
and treated it just the same as I treat financial or viagra spams - hit
the "junk-mail" key. That way anything else from that sender
automatically goes into the junk-trash which self deletes every time I
switch the computer
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