Lorelei Halley wrote:
I have seen many Maltese silk pieces with turned corners, but these also would
be mid 19th century or just a little earlier, and I have no idea what shape of
pillow was used on Malta.
What today in Malta/Gozo is called a traditional pillow looks like a loaf of
French/
Hi Sue, Bev, Mary Carey -
I agree with Mary Carey... the little "sausage" is easy enough to
make. I made one with a short length of plastic drinking straw as a
"core" to give it stability, and wrapped a bit of quilting batting (low
loft) around it. Covered it with a bit of cotton that match
You could make a temporary 'roller' from a piece of fabric, something
that would act as a core but would be more flexible than a wooden
cylinder.
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Sue wrote:
> Hi Bev, There is a little pocket but it is sideways on and wouldn't hold the
> lace. Maybe if I where t
Hello Sue
Yay, well done on bringing the roller pillow up to speed!
I've seen several roller pillows with work in progress, the finished
lace going into a little drawstring bag behind the roller. One
lacemaker made one from fabric that matched her cover cloth, but the
others used translucent nylon
Dear Bev,
I have made two "sausages", between 1" and 11/2" (stuffed with wool wadding
left over from quilting projects). The larger one I used to make a length of
41/2" torchon, the smaller one I used on my small round pillow, sure it could
be used with my travel pillow. The ends of the sausage
Hi Bev, There is a little pocket but it is sideways on and wouldn't hold the
lace. Maybe if I where to wrap a clean hanky around it until it gets longer
but then feel it should be rolled around something so it doesn't have
creases in.
I went to bed so excited and pleased with myself, LOL.
Sue
If you decide to use this kind of padding, shop carefully! Some "felt"
padding these days has rough bits in it that would definitely stop a
pin. Another no-no would be the non-slip coating they sometimes spray
on the back. If you're going to use padding, be sure it's clean
fibers/felt, with
The rollers I've made for pillows used the fibrous-type carpet padding. That's
getting harder to find, more and more carpet stores sell only the foam rubber
type. The short ends should be cut at an angle (taper the material) so that
there are no ridges where the padding starts and stops. The
Be careful of cotton batting!
I tried to make a pin cushion of several layers of a cotton mattress
pad, and pins would not go through it! It was solid. Maybe this was
because it was old and compacted? I don't know. I went for poly instead.
Lauren
On 8/15/2011 4:22 PM, Jane Partridge wrote:
In
I just recently completed a roller pillow. I used a dowel rod for the
center then wrapped 100% wool felt strips around the dowel until it was the
size I wanted. The 100% wool felt is more expensive than that mixed with
polyester but I think the 100% works better. I found the wool on sale and
had
Hi Everybody:
> I have found that woven cotton fabric many layers thick is
> actually quite resistant to pins. They won't go in far enough to be stable
> and you will bend a lot of them. I have found that 100% woven wool fabric
> takes pins very well
I want to add that you should use loosely-w
I was given two used Swedish pillows, where the rollers were too soft to
hold the pins. I use a single layer of a foam sheet, cut to size and pinned
to fit.
http://www.michaels.com/Creatology%E2%84%A2-Foam-Sheets/gc1328,default,pd.html?start=16&cgid=products-generalcrafts-foam
I would guess th
There are ways to make long-lasting rollers, and ways that are shorter lived.
The best rollers, and long lasting, are made from wool fabric, rolled around a
supporting dowel. They need to be just deeper than the length of pins to be
used. Thick sections of cotton fabric would be hard to pin i
Thank you Malvary and Joepie,
yesterday I mentioned to my husband that I have some woollen offcuts from a
living history skirt I made a few years ago, so I am not as daft as I
thought, . So I will shrink that (if you saw the skirt you would know
what I mean, even on what was a gentle wash:-)
Sue T asked "I have read in the past of the various ways that people help
preserve the surface of a roller pillow..."
I think that the best thing to cover your roller with is wool fabric (old
blanket or clothes cut into strips and wound as tightly as possible round
the styrofoam centre. One
Hi Dona -
When I (or I should say, my DH) built my first roller pillow, we used
Pamela Nottingham's description of constructing a French roller pillow
as our guide, but scaled it up to make a larger pillow, very similar to
the size of Toustou's large roller pillow. The way we secured the
rol
This one is actually inserted in a big square surface - you can see it on the
other pictures. The seller just picked a bad picture to display on the item
list, since this picture doesn't show all of the pillow, but is a close-up or
the small roller.
A bolster pillow is just a big cylindrical one t
I make this comment simply to clarify language/terminology differences between
the various countries: This is what the English call a bolster pillow. A
roller pillow usually has a much smaller roller inserted in some sort of a flat
surface, such as round (or cookie) pillow, or part thereof.
Rut
And for more information on Pillows including Rollers check here:
http://lace.lacefairy.com/PillowsBobbins/BobbinPillows.html
Lori the Lacefairy
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Cherre Bybee wrote -
> I have a student wanting to buy a roller pillow. Any suggestions on where
to go? >
Hi Cherre,
Obviously it depends on how much she would like to spend on it but there are
choices.
Snowgoose sells a foam bases unit called the "One and Only" that can convert
from cookie to r
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