Re: [lace] First Lace Pillow
Could it be that the lace teacher had to pay postage on the goods and passed that on? Joepie -Original Message- From: The Lace Bee Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 9:14 PM To: Arachne Subject: Re: [lace] First Lace Pillow I still have my first lace pillow from back in 1990. It is an 18 SMP polystrene which my lace teacher sold to me for £8 together with a cover and a cover cloth. It was only when I went to my first Springett's fair that september did I realise that I could have bought direct from them and got it cheaper. I was a little annoyed because the money to buy the equipment had not come from the teacher - it infact came from our employer who gave us £500 for supplies and books. We were supposed to borrow from the equipment library then if we wanted the equipment we bought it and the money was used to replace it with new stuff. Because our teacher didn't work for the company but her husband did I think a couple of the people invovled saw a chance to make a little money. Anyway back to my pillow. It was a lovely shape to start learning on because the dome was really high. This meant that the bobbins hung well on the pillow and being high they didn't need to have short threads to prevent them hitting the table. I loved that pillow. I used it every day for a year. Unfortunately the centre is virtually distroyed. One of my most prized pillows is by Rosemary Robinson (it's her large fan pillow where the centre is circular and moves within the main pillow) not just because of the design but because she always layers felt onto her polystrene so if it does start to break up it will be kept in place. Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] First Lace Pillow
No there was no postage, all the money was provided by the company and they even reinbursed the teacher for her petrol to collect the eqipment and her time. The idea was that the company basically subsidised our learning of the skill. It was a wonderful time though because each year we had a massive craft fair of things made by people who worked for the company and they hired the local town hall to show everything off to both employees and members of the public. You could exhib anything from home made wine to carpentry. L Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ --- On Sun, 17/4/11, J-D Hammett jdhamm...@msn.com wrote: From: J-D Hammett jdhamm...@msn.com Subject: Re: [lace] First Lace Pillow To: The Lace Bee thelace...@btinternet.com, Arachne lace@arachne.com Date: Sunday, 17 April, 2011, 9:39 Could it be that the lace teacher had to pay postage on the goods and passed that on? Joepie -Original Message- From: The Lace Bee Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 9:14 PM To: Arachne Subject: Re: [lace] First Lace Pillow I still have my first lace pillow from back in 1990. It is an 18 SMP polystrene which my lace teacher sold to me for £8 together with a cover and a cover cloth. It was only when I went to my first Springett's fair that september did I realise that I could have bought direct from them and got it cheaper. snipped - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] First Lace Pillow
Dear Friends, My first lace pillow was the seat of a hideous vinyl arm chair in a rented flat in Darwin, Northern Territory, way back in 1981. I left it full of 1000 pin holes and only succeeded in making a fine macrame bookmark!! Still Mum treasured that in her Bible till she died. David in Ballarat - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] First Lace Pillow
Mine was a strange, straw-filled, rectangular pillow about 12 inches x 8 inches x 3 inches, which I was given by a friend before I even knew about bobbin-lace. She came from Bedfordshire and told me this was what the pillow was used for. It is nicely covered in blue cotton, and would be a lot more useful if it had a circular cross-section, and could then be used as a bolster. Has anyone else met up with a lace pillow like this one? I used it for the first piece of lace I made from the Readers' Digest handbook, but then gave up trying lacemaking as the thread used was so thick and the design so odd that I couldn't believe it was lace!! Later another fired talked me into going to evening classes with her - and that turned out to be to make lace. Sue sueba...@comcast.net - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] First Lace Pillow
Hi Sue et all, Yes, I have a rectangular pillow, which was my first. I made it myself by using a piece of plywood with the corners rounded and a blue 'duck' (sail making canvas)bag fitted over it. It took me a whole weekend to chop straw and remove the nodes from it. Then stuff the canvas bag on one side of the board very tightly with the aid of a short broomstick and a mallet. My arms were extremely sore with all that effort. The pillow holds the pins beautifully but is VERY heavy. It is about 23 by 15 inches and goes from about 2/3 '' on the edge to about 3.5'' in the middle Also, at one time I left a piece of laceon it for too long and the brass pins I'd used had were oxidised and at one with the straw (I found out later that straw is quite acidic). That time I had to take my pins out with a pair of pliers leaving little green dots of 'verdigris' on my lace. It was an expensive lesson as I was unable to remove the spots from my lace and in the end discarded it. Now I use high density ethafoam pillows. I refuse to count my pillows or bobbins for inventory. That is too much lace-time wasted. Joepie, East Sussex From Sue Babbs Mine was a strange, straw-filled, rectangular pillow about 12 inches x 8 inches x 3 inches, which I was given by a friend before I even knew about bobbin-lace. She came from Bedfordshire and told me this was what the pillow was used for. It is nicely covered in blue cotton, and would be a lot more useful if it had a circular cross-section, and could then be used as a bolster. Has anyone else met up with a lace pillow like this one? I used it for the first piece of lace I made from the Readers' Digest handbook, but then gave up trying lacemaking as the thread used was so thick and the design so odd that I couldn't believe it was lace!! Later another fired talked me into going to evening classes with her - and that turned out to be to make lace. Sue - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] First Lace Pillow
I still have my first lace pillow from back in 1990. It is an 18 SMP polystrene which my lace teacher sold to me for £8 together with a cover and a cover cloth. It was only when I went to my first Springett's fair that september did I realise that I could have bought direct from them and got it cheaper. I was a little annoyed because the money to buy the equipment had not come from the teacher - it infact came from our employer who gave us £500 for supplies and books. We were supposed to borrow from the equipment library then if we wanted the equipment we bought it and the money was used to replace it with new stuff. Because our teacher didn't work for the company but her husband did I think a couple of the people invovled saw a chance to make a little money. Anyway back to my pillow. It was a lovely shape to start learning on because the dome was really high. This meant that the bobbins hung well on the pillow and being high they didn't need to have short threads to prevent them hitting the table. I loved that pillow. I used it every day for a year. Unfortunately the centre is virtually distroyed. One of my most prized pillows is by Rosemary Robinson (it's her large fan pillow where the centre is circular and moves within the main pillow) not just because of the design but because she always layers felt onto her polystrene so if it does start to break up it will be kept in place. Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] First Lace Pillow
Sue, Your pillow sounds very much like the dimensions of a needlelace pillow like the one I was given recently. It is very hard and heavy. Janice Mine was a strange, straw-filled, rectangular pillow about 12 inches x 8 inches x 3 inches, which I was given by a friend before I even knew about bobbin-lace. She came from Bedfordshire and told me this was what the pillow was used for. It is nicely covered in blue cotton, and would be a lot more useful if it had a circular cross-section, and could then be used as a bolster. Has anyone else met up with a lace pillow like this one? Sue Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
