Helen, in Australia when we travel interstate by plane to attend the annual conference, we are not allowed to take our pillows onto the plane in case we run amok with a brass pin and stab someone!
Naturally enough, I was very reluctant to put my pillow in the hold of the plane, but had no option. So I tethered my bobbins with those large knitting pins so that they couldn't become disordered, then I pinned the cover cloth in place. After that I put a sheet of bubble wrap over the pillow and tied it up on the cloth I use to carry the pillow around. After that (you can tell I'm a "bib and brace" type of person!) I wrapped the whole pillow in two layers of bubble wrap before putting the whole thing in a carry bag and asking the checkin staff to label the parcel "FRAGILE"!! If your pillows are going into a box, I don't think you'd need the outer cloth....but consider copious use of bubble wrap!! I've never had a broken thread (and I was using Egyptian 120 on at least one occasion) due to plane travel yet. Ruth [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Helen Bell Sent: Saturday, 23 May 2009 9:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [lace] Moving and packing lace pillows with UFOs Greetings All, I have a question and I'm sure there will be plenty with some sage advice for me. I will be relocating this summer, from Colorado to Washington (state), and I would like some advice please, on how to best pack a couple of my pillows that have projects in progress on them. - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
