My Polish cleaner brought her sister-in-law (who is visiting from Poland) to
help this morning and the S-I-L has just tipped my lacemaking pillow off
it's stand, flipped it upside down on the floor, and broken off several
bobbins. Before I could stop her she had picked up the pillow and got it
It could also be that those threads were broken in the fall. Before I learnt
of this trick, my grandson (then about 15 months old, now 18yrs!) 'played'
with my lace pillow when his mum was house sitting for us. It was a piece of
Bucks with about 40 or so pairs. She had shown it to a lace
