I have two block pillows. I like them both, but the creme de la creme is
definitely the one I just got from “Blue Water and Glass” in Florida. The
frame is beautifully made with custom inlays, and the felt he uses for the
blocks is firm, but the pins glide in like butter! I highly recommend!
I have two block pillows. One is felt and this is my favorite. However it is
fairly heavy and not so easy to travel with. The ethafoam one if lighter but I
find my fingers get sore from pushing the pins in.
Liz R, Raleigh, NC
> On Mar 21, 2018, at 1:55 PM, Diane Williams
I have been very happy with my block pillows from:
http://www.churchmeadowcrafts.com/pillows.html
Their extra wide block is 11 inches wide which works well for scarves.
Though I must admit that these days I work more on a Swedish roller pillow
which was given to me and has a lovely wide apron
In 2007 I spent 4 weeks camping in France and looking at lace places. What
really struck me was that every lace atelier I visited only had block pillows.
My block pillow is my work horse. My go to pillow. I purchased mine,
(satisfied customer only) from Ken Van Dieren.
Hi Diane,
I have an octagonal block pillow from Holly Van Sciver that I love (
http://www.vansciverbobbinlace.com/pillow.html), but the square blocks are
only 6 3/4". It's as big a pillow as I'm comfortable with (and I have a
pillow slightly over 24" so I use big ones. This pillow uses a row of
Hello everyone
Thanks so much for the replies about block pillows and your experiences
making bobbin lace scarves on them - or on something else g.
I was wondering about it at the time, and now I'm not - lots to think about
for the next project !
:)
--
Bev (near Sooke, BC on beautiful
Dear Friends:
In reading about these unusual projects, I would like to share with you what
my teachers in Sweden completed. Nina Drigoris and Bergitta Rudeskog made
two 3-story panels of fiber optic torchon for a private designer/architect.
Both of these panels flank the main entrance of
I made a make-shift pillow from the underlay for laminate flooring
covered with a cloth which was successful if not cumbersome. and I
bought wooden 'dolly' pegs to use as bobbins. (These each had a little
top hat which held the wool in place) I used these because I used a
variety of wool
Hi Bev
For the first big piece I did (waistcoat/vest) fronts I used a 24
cookie pillow but then I made myself a very big roller pillow. The
apron part is just three layers of insulation polystyrene stuck
together and hacked into shape with a carving knife. The roller is a
whole roll of the
Bev, I made a scarf from 1 ply pure wool some time ago. I made myself
three planks of high density polystyrene glued onto plywood, with the usual
padding and cover. They were about 8 inches deep and almost 2 feet wide.
Then I made two bands of wide elastic, not very tight, to hold them
Hi everyone
I'd like to hear comments from anyone who has made a bobbin lace scarf on a
block pillow. I set up a pattern on my block pillow and soon moved it to a
large bolster. However it is not a straightforward pattern and it continues
to hang in place, a long term work in progress (waah) - I'm
working the lace or with the mixture of bobbins.
Linda Greyling
Helderkruin
South Africa
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Hi everyone
I'd like to hear
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Hi everyone
I'd like to hear comments from anyone who has made a
bobbin lace scarf on a block pillow. .
If you have made a bobbin lace scarf, what type of
bobbins did you use? and
if on a block pillow was it one with wide blocks,
necessarily?
Scarves
Am just catching up on backlog of digests and wanted to tell y'all that I
have made 2 _Round_ block pillows.
It is easy to just construct a round cookie type pillow of the 2 Dow
insulation board and then cut it into as many pieces as you want. I cut it
so that some of the edge pieces are half
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