Well, there is that... But in actual fact, I use the same blocks over
and over (even when I use them all!), and it would take a very long time
and a lot of lace to wear out one of the foam pillows... and the cost is
low enough that one could simply buy another.
Clay
Andrea Lamble wrote:
....but surely then you'd always be using the same bit of the pillow to work
on and it would wear out more quickly. Using a symetrical pillow allows you to
change which part you work on....
Just a thought.
Andrea
Cambridge. UK
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From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [lace] larger pillows
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 09:28:29 +0100
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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
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