âI saw the post that the new lacemaker didn't correctly identify the pillow as a bolster. However, for anyone interested in being able to make lace on a bolster, Allie Marguccio will be teaching this skill at IOLI this July.
It is a Sunday pre-convention class. https://internationalorganizationoflace.org/Conventions/2018Convention/Classe s/sunclass.html Carolyn Hastings Madison, AL and sometimes Clinton, MA and Norfolk, VA â Carolyn Hastings Madison AL, and sometimes Clinton Ma and Norfolk, VA > > Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 06:49:34 -0800 > From: Sally Jenkins <dansing...@gmail.com> > Subject: [lace] Learning to use a bolster pillow > > Good morning all, > > I've been teaching beginning bobbin lace for several months now, on cookie > pillows or roller pillows. I just found out there is a woman who for > reasons of her own wants to learn to make lace on a bolster pillow, > something I don't do and don't want to learn (in order to teach) just now. > > Are there any books or websites or specific videos about working on a > bolster? I have found a discussion on ioli.ning to start with, but was > hoping there might be more. Most of my website search results, even if they > started out about *using* a bolster, morphed into discussions about > *making* one, > and that is not the issue here. > > On a side note, but relevant to to this, some YouTube videos that were > referenced in the ioli.ning discussion seemed either too fast or too slow > to be beneficial. Most YouTubes can be slowed down or speeded up easily. At > the bottom right of the video screen there is an icon that looks like a cog > or gear; it's the Settings icon. If you click on that, you can see that you > can change the speed, either faster or slower. When you are through > watching, be sure to re-set the speed to Normal. > > Thank you for your input, > Sally in western Oregon, USA > - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
