....but surely then you'd always be using the same bit of the pillow to work on and it would wear out more quickly. Using a symetrical pillow allows you to change which part you work on....
Just a thought. Andrea Cambridge. UK > CC: lace@arachne.com > From: paternos...@appleshack.com > Subject: Re: [lace] larger pillows > Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 09:28:29 +0100 > To: lacel...@verizon.net > > Just yesterday I set up a piece on a 24" octagonal pillow. It's not a > particularly big pattern; a piece of torchon I said I'd design for a > future YLM pattern book, but that was the pillow available and as I was > positioning the pricking I though that I wouldn't be using the back > third of the pillow at all. > > Maybe I'll have a go some time at making a D shaped pillow, it would > appear that there's a need and a gap in the market for D shaped > flat/cookie lace pillows. > > Brenda > > > On 9 May 2009, at 21:18, Alice Howell wrote: > > > I like working on a 20" cookie pillow for smaller projects. I find > > that the far 4-5 inches of the pillow are not used much. The 20" > > pillow won't fit in a suitcase very well. One day I tried cutting a > > slice off the back of a pillow to make the front to back measurement > > less than 18" to fit a suitcase better. It worked well. And I found > > that I really liked using the pillow. That missing part on the far > > side was not missed. > > > > I'm going to try it on a 24" pillow since I have an extra one on hand. > > I'll cut off the far edge so I have 17.5" depth left, but will have > > more room on each side than on the 20"pillow. It should hold more > > bobbins. > > > > Brenda in Allhallows, Kent > http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html > > - > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: > unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to > arachnemodera...@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________________ View your Twitter and Flickr updates from one place Learn more! - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
