Adventures in pillow repair.

Post #384,068 by Andrew Grygus 12/7/13 1:31:48 PM Reply	Adventures in pillow repair. Around 9 months ago, I bought a package of two down filled pillows, desperately needed to replace two dead pillows. Unfortunately they were way too puffy for me to use, so I adopted the older (but much less used) pillow from the lady's side of the bed as my own, and put the two new ones over there. I had recently noticed a few feathers scattered around the bedroom, but last night I felt that older pillow rip wide open. This would mean a trip to BB&B, and I'd hoped not to do any shopping at all until well after the holidays. This morning I examined it and found it had torn right along the edge seam, so it would be easy to do a repair that would last at least into mid January. So, I reluctantly went for my sewing machine. It is an ancient Universal portable. It is portable only by the Navy definition, as a 16 inch naval rifle is "portable" because it can be carried on a ship. So, as long as there were already feathers loose, I figured it would be a good time to deflate the down pillows to usability. I set about doing that. Down, it turns out, is about as unmanageable a substance as exists anywhere. By time I was done I looked like Big Bird, and my dining room looked like it had been suicide bombed by a Muslim duck. I did not need a fortune teller to tell me I had some serious vacuum cleaning in my near future.
Post #384,069 by drook 12/7/13 1:42:24 PM Reply	Wife has a suggestion She also likes down less puffy than most. She'll take a new pillow and set several heavy books on it for a couple of weeks. She claims it then stays flatter. -- Drew
Post #384,070 by Ashton 12/7/13 1:57:26 PM Reply	Did I ever tell the story about the guy with a newly-redecorated living room, fireplace etc. (Wife chose the color-less scheme, natch.) And his decision to pretty-up the grate in said fireplace?? Well.. he did (spray that sucker into a nice matte-black..) Then a phone call came in (pre-cel-Era) and he went to answer it. After a time on phone there was a Large Whooooomp!!! ... seemingly from whence he came. . . . . . . . . . . . Having intended to be away only briefly, he had set down the aerosol can on nearest thing. Turned out: it was the radiator. Suddenly that White-Room had become, nearly everywhere: a room-sized-Dalmatian :-/ :-/ :-/ ..After the divorce.. but that's Another story. So then--what's a few feathers, eh?
Post #384,081 by boxley 12/8/13 8:17:59 PM Reply	shouda used duck tape My problem with down pillows is that I am highly allergic to down in pillows. Every time I stay at a pretentious hotel the first thing I do is tear off all of the pillow cases and check the labels. No label a discreet tear takes place. Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #384,085 by drook 12/8/13 10:45:32 PM Reply	Boooo ... -- Drew
Post #384,089 by S1mon_Jester 12/9/13 1:31:54 AM Reply	Best visual in a long time... and my dining room looked like it had been suicide bombed by a Muslim duck. Best visual I've heard in a while...
Post #384,091 by Andrew Grygus 12/9/13 2:23:26 AM Reply	And little did that duck know . . . . . that all 72 virgins are still in the shell. The gotchyas are always in the details.

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