Yes, I made a scarf on a large Flemish pillow. Two blocks one 30 X 20
and the other 30 X 10 cm. A Jane Atkinson Torchon pattern from one of
the first Lace express magazines.
I used large continental bobbins and some selfmade from sticks with
beads glued on. 58 pairs in total.
I had no problems
--- 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?
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 thickn
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
together.
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
Hello everyone
Thanks so much for the replies about block pillows and your experiences
making bobbin lace scarves on them - or on something else .
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 Vancouver
