Lorelei;
Nancy Evans has a wonderful tilted pillow that she uses to do her
needlelace on. She can adjust the angle of tilt, and the pillow can
spin, like a lazy susan, as well, so you can get to all sides as needed.
I have done a piece in my hand because I needed it to be portable. It
was not hard to do. BUT using the pillow, and think cookie pillow here,
was also a very easy way to work, and comfortable, too.
A small pillow that you hold in your hand, to me, is more awkward than
just holding the piece. Having the piece on the cookie pillow, tilted
up, on the table in front of you makes it easy to keep tension good, and
can even be faster than in the hand.
I don't know if Nancy reads this list... maybe she can chime in?
Lauren
Snyder in Snohomish WA.
Lorelei Halley wrote:
Catherine
Thank you for your comments. I work in my hand, but have tried using a
pillow. Soon after I started to learn I was having terrible problems with
tension, and some of our experts suggested that a pillow might help. So I had
a tubular piece of polyethylene and used that for a while. It did help with
tension, but was too light weight. I ended up spending too much energy
keeping it in place. So I stopped using it. For this piece I didn't use a
pillow at all. As I worked I bent and folded the piece so I could get my left
hand close enough to the work to use it for nailing down the stitches. The
hardest part was actually the edge. Because the work was fairly heavy and I
ended up with 95% of it dangling from my left forefinger. It actually took
considerable muscle to keep from dropping it again and again. But most of my
pieces end up being fairly large, because I enlarge everything (eyesight
problems). So I'll just have to get used to it and work out a system.
Lorelei
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