<<I'm currently assembling the SMP Travel Pillow that I bought many years
ago as I've been commissioned to make an edging for an Estonian folk
costume blouse. As I want to get it started soon so I can work on it
when I go to Finland for a day trip in early June to see a lace
exhibition, I need to know how to attach the board to the bottom of the
pillow securely. I was also thinking of making a drawstring bag for it
as well. Can anyone help me?>>
When I made my SMP travel pillow I used the white PVA glue that is used for
Wood Glue these days. It doesn't melt the polystyrene. Put a good thick
coat of the glue on the board and place the pillow over it, then I used to
put a piece of clean paper on top fo the pillow then a sheet of wood or
something smooth and strong, on top of the paper and weigh it down with
something heavy. Leave for 24hours or so for the glue to dry out and there
you have your pillow glued to the base board.
I must have made at least 150 polystyrene block pillows over the years to
sell to lacemakers here and I have 3 block pillows and a travel pillow from
SMP all of these I glued to their base boards with the White PVA glue and
nothing has come adrift to date, one pillow I have is at least 15years old
now and is in use all the time. So you should be allright with gluing your
travel pillow.
You could make a draw string bag that is just two squares of fabric stitched
around 3 sides and a channel run around the open edges to take the draw
string, but in this way you would have to put the pillow in on it's edge so
the bobbins would need securing firmly as they will hang down the pillow
towards the bottom of the bag. You could make the same sort of bag but
instead of a drawstring buy some plastic, wooden or metal bag handles in a
craft shop and attach the top edges of the bag to the handles, you would no
doubt have to gather the fabric onto the handle.
Alternatively make a base for the bag about half and inch of so larger than
the base board of the pillow, which I assume is rectangular or square.
Take a piece of the fabric long enough to go around the four sides of the
base and deep enough to suit your needs and join the two short ends together
to form a tube. Now stitch this Tube around the 4 edges of the base fabric,
right sides together, trimming the corners and snipping up to but not
through the stitching in the corners to make it easy to get a nice corner
when the bag is turned right side out. Then run a channel around the top
of the bag shape you should now have and thread the draw string through.
This type of bag would mean you can put your pillow into the bag flat on
it's base. You could make the fabric "tube" for this type of bag long
enough to allow you to put a small pleat in each side as you stitch it to
the base, to make a bit of a gusset on each side. These pleats would make
the sides of the bag spacious enough to give a lot of ease of putting the
pillow in and out. Without these gussetts you might find it a bit tight to
get the pillow in and out of the bag without jogging the bobbins about it
they are not securely tied down.
An even simpler method would be to take a large square of fabric, large
enough to put the pillow in the centre and draw up the four corners to meet.
You could just tie two opposite corners together to give two handles. I
used to do this with my first ever lace pillow to transport it to classes.
You carry the pillow flat in the this way. Instead of tying the corners you
could add a buttonhole or loop and a button, or use velcro to fix the
corners together to make the handles.
regards
Jenny DeAngelis.
Spain
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