Alice gave a wonderful synopsis of the various pillows for yardage - but she forgot to mention a bolster pillow.
If you look on my yahoo photos (http://photos.yahoo.com/drswilliams) at the bottom there are several photos of my current work in progress - Ipswich lace on a bolster pillow. I've got about 40 inches done now. I have a one and only and another roller pillow that I usually use for yardage lace, but the repeat on this pattern is about 3 inches and the pricking didn't come together on the roller part of either pillow. Since I was going to have to hopscotch the prickings I knew it would be easier to do on the bolster. I made this bolster by cutting a wool army blanket, found at a garage sale, into strips and wrapping it around a very firm cardboard tube. Then I made a casing that fit very tightly over it. It's a pretty heavy pillow. The little table frame was made from a pattern on the lacefairy website. One of these days I'll get around to either painting or staining it. It takes some getting used to handling the bobbins, but I am able to work longer hours at this pillow because it is much more upright. I work at it about half an hour each morning while I'm trying to wake up and usually an hour or more in the evenings watching TV. Diane Williams Galena, Illinois USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Alice Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you want to make lengths then yes you are right > > you need either a roller > > pillow or a block pillow. > > > > Not necessarily so. These two are the most > convenient > form of pillows to make yardage, but thousands of > yards were made in the past on plain rounded or > cookie > pillows. If part of the pillow does not move, then > the lace itself is unpinned and moved up to the top > of > the pattern for the next section to be worked. It > may > be a bit scary the first time or two, but it has > been > done and can be done. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
