On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:30:32 -0700, Eileen wrote: >Since it's summer and many people are traveling, I was wondering: >1. What kind of pillow do you travel with? (travel pillow?) >2. Do you use travel bobbins? >3. Is there any problem going through airport security with a million pins?
The pillow I travel with depends on where I'm going and why. I have a fold up travel pillow of the type that has been described by several other people, a roller in a box with a triangular section above that folds out to work on. On this pillow I do use travel bobbins, because there isn't enough length on the fold down apron to accommodate the length of leash I like and a full size bobbin. My travel bobbins are spangled with smaller beads to match the bobbins. These work fine with the size 80 cotton I have on them for a Bucks edging, but probably would be too light for a much thicker thread. I can use 20 pairs of the small bobbins in reasonable comfort, using a stitch holder to keep half out of the way most of the time. This allows me to have a more complex pattern which keeps my interest. I take this when going on a non-lace trip. Sometimes I'm traveling from UK to Germany specifically for lace, usually to go to the German Lace Guild convention, and often to take a lace class. My old method of handling this was to put my smallest 18 inch cookie pillow with blocks in my hold luggage. When the trips became regular I bought a set of the square blocks of some sort of foam with wool on top that Gabriele Kister-Schuler makes, and many suppliers sell. Now I just take a couple of my spare blocks, and borrow the rest of the pillow while I'm there. I always bring the blocks with the work in progress back in my hand luggage. (The wool on foam blocks are now my favourite surface for making lace on.) I have been through German, Austrian and British airports with the travel pillow or the blocks from a block pillow with pins in, on average a couple of times a year for the last 6 years or so. I often have to explain what it is (in Germany or Austria) or unpack and show it (in England where airport staff have never heard of bobbin lace). I've never been told I can't take it on board. -- A bad day on the bike always beats a good day in the office! Steph Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tatting, lace & stitching page <http://www.sandbenders.demon.co.uk/index.htm> Scanned by WinProxy http://www.Ositis.com/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
