When you consider our lacemaking ancestors would have been pleased with any bobbin they got given or had the opportunity to buy, due to the sheer cost of equipment for their profession this just makes me sit with my mouth open in shock.
I admit that I like a certain weight of bobbin but I achieve that by adapting my spangles to give the overall weight which is where we came in on this discussion a week ago. I've taught lace for nearly as long as I've made it because I have a talent for teaching. I've been a business trainer for over 15 years as well. Recently, I had the opportunity or rather good fortune to be able to afford to take more tuition in other crafts and have also been asked to teach other crafts and what really gets me is that often those who instruct tell you more about their issues and failings than the craft or subject you have come to learn. A good teacher or trainer will always show you how to over come the issue, a poor teach will tell you to avoid them For the past two years, professionally, in my day job, I write eLearning. When you are proposing information that will be used without you present you have to be very precise in your instructions and I've become more self aware as to how I teach face to face. When people say to you things like it was nice to learn with you because you didn't shout at me or you seem so relaxed when I made a mistake that I realised it doesn't mater if you get it wrong, I get worried about what those previous teachers and tutors might be doing to people's confidence. So, if I take the comment below from an instructor then I've never made a decent piece of lace in 26 years and all my students will never make a decent piece of lace EVER. Well, might as well give up now (grin). As the DH says, some people just have faces that need to be slapped. Kind Regards Liz Baker > On 24 Apr 2015, at 03:14, [email protected] wrote: > > I was informed in a recent workshop by the instructor that it is impossible > to make a decent piece of lace unless all the bobbins are exactly the same - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
