Sue and the spiders (sounds like a fab new group eh!!), I have always used the SMP domed pillows as my first choice because they are hard waring and were rather inexpensive. If the centre got squidgey I just treated myself to a new one. Back in 2002 I bought a whole bunch of them (it was a buy 4 and get the 5th free offer they did at the time) and popped them in my loft. DH thinks it's rather fun that every time we move, so do the 'new' pillows which need to be loving looked after so they don't get bashed. But he agrees that it's real treat for me to think, whatever, I'll just go get a new one out. "No excuses not to make lace" ... his saying as he is convinced that when I play computer games my IQ can be heared to shrink. For my more important projects I have two of Rosemarie Robertson's pillows - my honiton and my fan pillow (it's the one where the centre rotates within the other part of the pillow. Rosemarie Robertson covers her pillows with felt before putting the cotton cover on and this does hold the pillow together. I would think that for a very domed pillow you would need to cut darts into the felt so that it lies flat and also I would think that you would need to glue it to the pillow to stop it from moving. If you are working with polystrene then I think good old copydex would be the best bet because if it's new then you can put a very thin layer onto the felt and pillow, let them start to dry then contact stick them when it's nearly dry. This way there would be no sticky stuff to come through the felt or the lace. Hope my thoughts help. With SMP no longer doing the domed pillows I suppose my first choice would be to buy up old Dryad kits on ebay - but can anyone out there recommend a good reasonably priced domed pillow in the UK.
Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ ________________________________ From: Sue <hurwitz...@btinternet.com> To: Arachne <lace@arachne.com> Sent: Sunday, 22 January 2012, 12:20 Subject: [lace] pillow question Can I ask all you lacemakers out there about pillows. I have 3 Dryad 18 inch domed (cookie) pillows all now with soft squidgy middles and a 2o/22? inch flat round one which I am about to use in place of the domed one, not much used yet. All are polystyrene commercially made. I am considering whether to buy another 18 domed one to replace all three old ones but when looking in the UK I only found one of the three sites I looked at with 18 domed, most of them were various sizes of flat round. I Cant Manage With The Staw Pillows which are just too heavy for me to lift about or to rest on my legs which I need to put up part of most days. If I/When I buy a new pillow I want to be able to protect it and use it to keep it in the best useable condition that I can from the very start. What do you put over to protect the pillow but allowing it be ok to put pins in and out? The first one I did put a towel over the top under the cloth cover and it hurt like crazy putting pins in, so that was no good (no idea where that idea came from). I think that maybe felt underneath might bring tufts of colour back up into the lace. Sue T Dorset UK www.hurwitzend.co.uk - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
