Sue The first thing to consider about recovering your roller is: how does it fit into the well hole in your pillow? If you roller sits in a well you won't be able to add more padding to the roller and still have it fit in the hole.
But if that isn't a problem (if the well is considerably larger than the existing roller), then to pad the roller you need cloth or padding that takes pins easily. I have found that woven cotton fabric many layers thick is actually quite resistant to pins. They won't go in far enough to be stable and you will bend a lot of them. I have found that 100% woven wool fabric takes pins very well and is my preferred padding for an area which will take pins. Ideally the padding should equal 3/4 of the length of the pins you are likely to use so that the pins won't go into the styrofoam at all. I haven't tried cotton or polyesther batting. Possibly several layers of cotton quilt batting would work. But I would take a pin to the quilt store and test it -- try sticking the pin through several layers of batting to see how it feels. (The staff might come running to the defense of their batts, so you'll have to be sneaky.) The other possibility is that when the styrafoam roller becomes dished and pitted from use, just discard it and replace it with a thickish dowel wrapped tightly in wool fabric. But you will have 6 months to a year of use before this happens. My website has a page on making wool pillows with a wool wrapped dowel roller. http://lynxlace.com/makeapillow.html Lorelei Halley - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
