Hi all At a Pacific Northwest Lace Conference I took a needlelace class with Nancy Evans (highly recommended teacher, too); we worked without pillows. The project was convenient to pull out to work on as I sat on the ferry on the last part of my journey home. I had all the bits in a pocket of a small case a friend had made to hold bobbin lace tools.
Come to think of it, when we had an intro class at the lace club some years ago, we didn't use pillows either. Someone brought one to class and we all just examined it but no-one tried to use it. As I am a complete duffer with needle and thread, I took the class from Nancy to understand the structure of this beautiful technique. On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Sue Babbs <[email protected]> wrote: > I was taught to make needlelace without using a pillow, and did all my City > and Guilds pieces that way. When I came to try it on a pillow, I found that > hard and have never adapted to it. I guess it's like learning on Midlands > bobbins and then someone suggesting you try continental - or vice versa. > Hard! > > An advantage of not using a pillow is that it the lacemaking is even more > transportable and can be worked on in odd places (back to the top of the > mountain standing in the snow!) > > Sue > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clay Blackwell" < > [email protected]> > > > For those who want to try Needle Lace, and don't really want to have to >> get yet another pillow, it is very possible to do Needle Lace in your hands. >> > > -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
