This reminds me of a Guiders' training course I attended years ago at Foxlease, (in Hampshire UK) we were learning how to teach creative folk dance without making the movements ourselves. My thought from this is that you should be able to teach mostly without the need to touch their pillows, bobbins, etc, but for those who need to see a stitch demonstrated, could you set up a travel pillow with a few bobbins that you can take round the table with you, so you show them on your pillow, not theirs? Where mistakes are concerned learning to spot a mistake and correct it is progress, if need be you can tell them where to go back to and what has gone wrong, but don't do the undoing and redoing yourself or they will never learn. (I have heard some lacemakers say they always had their teacher start pieces off or finish for them so they didn't know how, which was the means of the teacher retaining learners because they were dependent on him/her!)
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