Hello everyone
Thanks so much for the replies about block pillows and your experiences
making bobbin lace scarves on them - or on something else g.
I was wondering about it at the time, and now I'm not - lots to think about
for the next project !
:)
--
Bev (near Sooke, BC on beautiful
Dear Friends:
In reading about these unusual projects, I would like to share with you what
my teachers in Sweden completed. Nina Drigoris and Bergitta Rudeskog made
two 3-story panels of fiber optic torchon for a private designer/architect.
Both of these panels flank the main entrance of
I made a make-shift pillow from the underlay for laminate flooring
covered with a cloth which was successful if not cumbersome. and I
bought wooden 'dolly' pegs to use as bobbins. (These each had a little
top hat which held the wool in place) I used these because I used a
variety of wool
Hi Bev
For the first big piece I did (waistcoat/vest) fronts I used a 24
cookie pillow but then I made myself a very big roller pillow. The
apron part is just three layers of insulation polystyrene stuck
together and hacked into shape with a carving knife. The roller is a
whole roll of the
Bev, I made a scarf from 1 ply pure wool some time ago. I made myself
three planks of high density polystyrene glued onto plywood, with the usual
padding and cover. They were about 8 inches deep and almost 2 feet wide.
Then I made two bands of wide elastic, not very tight, to hold them
Hi everyone
I'd like to hear comments from anyone who has made a bobbin lace scarf on a
block pillow. I set up a pattern on my block pillow and soon moved it to a
large bolster. However it is not a straightforward pattern and it continues
to hang in place, a long term work in progress (waah) - I'm
working the lace or with the mixture of bobbins.
Linda Greyling
Helderkruin
South Africa
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Subject: [lace] block pillows and BL scarves
Hi everyone
I'd like to hear
--- bevw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everyone
I'd like to hear comments from anyone who has made a
bobbin lace scarf on a block pillow. .
If you have made a bobbin lace scarf, what type of
bobbins did you use? and
if on a block pillow was it one with wide blocks,
necessarily?
Scarves
