Cleaning a Quilt

This is true. I remember watching my mom wash our clothing on a washboard in the double sink. She didn't get one of those old fashioned wringer washers until I was about 8, in 1952. Then she had to lean out the window to hang them on the washline from the tenement window. A nasty job when it was cold.

Not only did they have to

When my son was an infant in the mid 1960s I had to wash them by hand. There were no disposable in those days where I lived. It was a nasty gross job. I tossed out more than a few diapers. We couldn't afford a diaper service.

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I love passing on newsgroup hints and tidbits to my quilt guild - every year we have a meeting to swap details on our favorite new tools and techniques. Allison

Polly Esther wrote:

tee hee....obviously I watch waaaaaay too many episodes of CSI: skimming this message, I read "I boiled my 5 children" Yikes!!

I do that too Butterfly, especially with rag quilts after washing, don't laugh but I use a lice comb from the drug store, with caution it works very well to get rid of lints.lol. Dixie in sunny and cool NB.

When I give to you something I made with my hands I share my heart.

No "-mat" about it. Tubs, taps, washboards, wringers. They got machines as well towards the end but kept the manual options too.

I vaguely remember seeing the inside of one but never used one.

The play is available on DVD and parts of it on YouTube - look for Tony Roper, "The Steamie". Probably the most-performed Scottish play of the last generation. I think most folks here would like it.

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I have been very fortunate to always have had my own washing machine, and later a dryer, although I prefer outdoor line drying.