Hi everyone and Julie Your 19" cookie will be fine - from where it is now, you can lift your lace carefully, don't take the pins all the way out of the pricking. After loosely placing the bobbins in a folded cover cloth, and pinned (like a bag), ease the pins + pricking off the pillow, and ease the unit more into the centre of your pillow. Ease the pins and pricking into the pillow (yeh, it's ease-y!!). If you are doing a hanky edge, figure on placing the corner at the centre, move the unit as you run out of room for your bobbins, unless you want to increase the 'apron' or pillow surface with something temporary (such as a folded towel, or shaped styrofoam). Move for each corner. You can build a tiny incline with craft foam or felt, to slip under the ending part of the pricking (before you move) such that the pins and pricking are into the foam, but not the pillow itself, then slide the work to a better position on the pillow for the next corner. Yes, you would have more copies of the pricking at the ready.
I am working a hanky edge in this manner, and have turned the third corner - and I've convinced myself that though working in this way is possible, a block pillow would be more fun, and less fiddly. Hope this helps, -- bye for now Bev in Sooke, BC (west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins http://www.victoria.tc.ca/~wt912 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
