Hello everyone,
I only use "D" shaped pillows anymore. I make them myself, stuffed really hard with uncarded wool fleece. The fleece I wash in the washing machine and dry in the dryer so it's partly felted. The "D" shaped pillows weigh so much less, they are easier to handle, and I seem to find plenty of room for my bobbins. But I do tend to wrap my idle bobbins in handkerchiefs and stack them sideways. If my piece has corners, I turn the corner, barely, and then move the lace immediately. I find frequently moving lace on a smallish pillow much more efficient and more fun than struggling with a lace pattern awkwardly placed on a large pillow. And I really hate pillows now with corners. I really don't like jabbing my stomach with those sharp edges. I've written before about how I move my lace pattern, don't want to bore you to tears! If anyone would like to know how I do it, please let me know. Sally Schoenberg New Mexico > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [lace] d shaped pillows > Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:47:47 +0100 > > Dear Brenda et al, > > I have seen a d-shaped pillow on ebay so there cannot be that big a gap in > the market; however its location is listed as New York so maybe it is the UK > market where there is a gap? > Here is a link to the listing: > > http://tinyurl.com/q7q4cl > > Rhiannon > (Sunning herself in County Meath, Ireland) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Brenda Paternoster > Sent: 10 May 2009 09:28 > To: Alice Howell > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [lace] larger pillows > > Just yesterday I set up a piece on a 24" octagonal pillow. It's not a > particularly big pattern; a piece of torchon I said I'd design for a > future YLM pattern book, but that was the pillow available and as I was > positioning the pricking I though that I wouldn't be using the back > third of the pillow at all. > > Maybe I'll have a go some time at making a D shaped pillow, it would > appear that there's a need and a gap in the market for D shaped > flat/cookie lace pillows. > > Brenda > > > On 9 May 2009, at 21:18, Alice Howell wrote: > > > I like working on a 20" cookie pillow for smaller projects. I find > > that the far 4-5 inches of the pillow are not used much. The 20" > > pillow won't fit in a suitcase very well. One day I tried cutting a > > slice off the back of a pillow to make the front to back measurement > > less than 18" to fit a suitcase better. It worked well. And I found > > that I really liked using the pillow. That missing part on the far > > side was not missed. > > > > I'm going to try it on a 24" pillow since I have an extra one on hand. > > I'll cut off the far edge so I have 17.5" depth left, but will have > > more room on each side than on the 20"pillow. It should hold more > > bobbins. > > > > Brenda in Allhallows, Kent > http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to > [email protected] > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.325 / Virus Database: 270.12.24/2108 - Release Date: 05/11/09 > 05:52:00 > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to > [email protected] - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
