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
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
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
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
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
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
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
