Someday I will finish drying all that hay (the straw in central Texas is
wheat) and make my stuffed pillow.
In the meantime I am using an ethafoam cookie pillow I bought from a vendor
here in the US. The same person with the d-pillow on eBay right now.
My first pillow (after a Styrofoam loaner) was made from quarter inch thick
sheets of a soft foam used to pad something (they were a gift). I glued
these in layers on a piece of wood and covered with it a knit fabric. It
worked fine (for a flat rectangle) for a couple of projects before I had to
buy the ethafoam pillow in a hurry (while drying hay) so I could keep up
with my class. This first pillow was essentially pulverized by the pins.
Little pieces of foam under the fabric. Not to mention it took forever for
the glue to dry and every once in a while a pin would get stuck in the glue.
You could feel when you hit the glue line. Live and learn, but I do have
good memories of this pillow.
Somewhere a few months ago I read of someone using a warm iron on a
polystyrene pillow to "bring it back to life."
Does anyone know about this method of pillow rejuvenation?
TIA,
Pat
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From: "Alice Howell" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 11:12 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [lace] pillows - comparing
Lace is worked in the central area of a round cookie pillow, no matter how
you turn it around. If doesn't really matter whether you keep the same
edge toward yourself or not. When I repeat a pattern, I move the pricking
a tiny bit before starting again.
There is one fact that you need to be aware of when comparing pillows.
The type of ethafoam we have in the USA is self-healing. When the pin is
pulled out, the hole closes up. It takes years and years of pinning to
break down this foam.
The pillow I got in the UK that was supposed to be the best thing going
lasted only about 4 years. I had to give it up and put it in the trash.
The working area in the middle had broken down. The ethafoam pillow I got
when I started lacemaking 16 years ago has had a project on it almost all
the time and is still going strong.
The well-packed pillow made with straw, seaweed, wool, etc. will last 100
years. The foam pillows won't last that long, but neither will I. The
foam pillows are inexpensive, so if one does wear out, it can be easily
replaced.
Alice in Oregon
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From: Andrea Lamble <[email protected]>
....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....
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