David, I would like to share a method that I learned from Robin Lewis Wild. It only works on a straw filled pillow and it does involve the sacrifice of some pins. It also works best if the pins are long. I have found that this method secures the pricking very firmly to the pillow and puts the pin heads so far in to the pillow that my threads never catch on them. Let me see if I can describe it.
It requires two pins at each place you secure the pricking. The first is pushed straight through the pricking and into the pillow. Leave about half the pin sticking up out of the pillow. Bend that end at a 90 degree angle (actually I usually bend the pin before I put it in the pillow). So you now have a bent pin with half of it going through the pricking into the pillow and the upper half laying on top of the pillow. The second pin is placed across the first pin at a 90 degree angle. This pin will take a bite out of the pillow (be sure to catch the main part of the pillow and not just the covering), come up across the end of the bent pin and then go back into the pillow again. This is probably a little hard to visualize. I will be happy to try to take a picture of this if someone will talk me through how to get the photo into a place where everyone on arachne can see it. Liz Redford Raleigh, NC, USA ---- David C COLLYER <dccoll...@ncable.net.au> wrote: > Dear Friends, > Another questions for your wonderful combination of minds. > > How do you secure your pricking to the pillow? - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
