Bev and Spiders, I love to read about all the pillows you clever people have made - but it does make me realise how lucky we are in the UK with all the different and relatively inexpensive pillows we can buy, so we don't have to actually sit down and make our own. I made my first straw filled cookie pillow, but apart from it having some very strange lumps and bumps, it weighs a ton, and if you don't eat the regulation amount of spinach to grow the arm muscles, you need a truck to transport it!
I do seem to collect more pillows than are strictly necessary - I love the ones made by Josie and Jeff Harrison, so have quiote a few of theirs, as well as those made by SMP and others, and I do have one of those very elderly (but almost unused!) Newnham pillows with a sort of skirt round the circular middle, so that making fans, huge collars and berthas is a doddle - the circular bit in the middle turns, so the skirt is always in the correct place to hold the bobbins. But again, that hasn't been used a great deal - there are only so many collars and fans one needs, and it is also amazingly heavy! The pillows I tend to use most often are the 22" or 24" flat pilllows - I don't seem to have any trouble with the bobbins rolling about, and I love all the space and room on them. I do think though that when I return in the next incarnation, I may well take up penny-whistle playing instead of lace (?) as it is far less effort to cart around a penny-whistle, and it certainly wouldn't take up as much room as all those pillows and lace-associated gear! Carol - in Suffolk UK. Subject: re: [lace] pillow > Hi everyone > I use my humongous straw-filled bolster, which I made > from the definition in Casell's Dictionary of Lacemaking. > > I also made a heavy, straw-filled Midlands pillow, square in shape, from > the same book - it really needs its own pillow horse to be useful - and > I haven't used it yet. > - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
