Hi Karisse! I've not worked with 300 bobbins at a time, but I can tell you how to tame your bobbins when you have more than can be accomodated at one time on your pillow...
Since you're working with Midlands bobbins, you're in luck! The easiest way to keep your pillow tidy is to go out to your nearest craft or knitting shop and buy a bunch of stitch holders used in knitting to hold knitting stitches when you take the knitting off the needle. They look like very large safety pins, and will accomodate 8 - 10 pairs of bobbins when they are run through the spangles. When you gather up your bobbins like this, the bundles can be stacked on top of each other on one side of the pillow or the other, leaving plenty of space in the center for the bobbins you're working. To figure out how many of these holders you need, count the bobbins on your pillow and divide by 16... for 150 bobbins, I'd buy ten. You can always buy more as you tackle wider projects. For projects where you choose to use "Thumpers", or continental bobbins which don't have spangles, most lace vendors carry a bobbin holder that is wood and has an elastic cord that holds the bobbins in place - and in order. They're more expensive than the knitting stitch holders, but the knitting stitch holders just don't work with bobbins that don't have spangles. This is also a wonderful way to prepare your pillow for moving it - for example, to a class or demonstration. After the bobbins are all bundled, scoot the bundles up a tad to take the tension off the threads, and then secure the bundles to the pillow with a cover cloth and/or elastic strip. It will only take a few minutes to have your pillow back in working shape when you get to your destination. Hope this all makes sense!! Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [Original Message] > From: Karisse Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 7/22/2004 11:45:12 AM > Subject: [lace] Pattern lifting > > My dear friends I am so glad you are there to correct and inform. I am > working on a rectangle bucks point pattern that is about 4X6 inches. I have > it on a relatively flat cookie pillow. I didn't have any wrinkles in the > pattern to pin out on the edges when I put the pattern on the pillow. As I > have worked down the pattern the card stock worked up off the pillow but the > lace itself did not work up the pins. I slanted the edge pins to the side > and back so the lace was held tight against the pricking and did not move up > the pins. But the pricking card itself moved up the pins. I was wondering if > a pattern like this was worked on a bolster pillow, if the pricking card > would stay on the bolster pillow. I have worked many yards of buckspoint > lace on roller pillows and not had the problem of the pricking card coming > up from the pillow. But when I work a pattern on a cookie type pillow I have > this problem. > > I can't see how one would take care of all the bobbins on a bolster pillow > when you are working a large pattern like this that uses so many pairs of > bobbins. I have midland spangled bobbins because I like to use them with my > roller pillows and my cookie pillows to do bucks point but if I went to > using a huge bolster pillow to make this wide lace what do I do with the 300 > to 400 bobbins while I am working with the 10 to 20? How did they keep the > bobbins from all coming down in front? Did they wrap the extra bobbins in > cover clothes and pin them to the side? Did they tie them together and pin > them to the side? > > Has anyone worked a pattern wider than 4 inches and used more than 300 > bobbins on a bolster pillow? Thanks for your help and your ideas. And I > think I am "bonkers" too just to think about making some lace like this. OK, > bucks thumper is what I meant. Thanks for the smile. > > I have Christine Springettes book on Fine Buckinghamshire Point lace > patterns and I am thinking about making some of the lace in this book but I > don't want to fight the patterns coming off the pillow and so I was > wondering if I would have to make a huge bolster pillow like I have seen in > some pictures of ladies making point lace. > > Karisse > Killeen, Tx where the heat and humidity are making me a litttle "bonkers" > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
