machine quilting historically that is...

Thanks Taria,

I have a few "friends" who claim that machine quilting is not true quilting and that it is fairly modern so to speak. I think this will give them something to think about.

Very interesting.

Regards, Di

Thanks -very interesting! It was probably the tedious straight lines done by machine that gave it a bad name, as the article suggests. How lucky we are to have such wonderful machines nowadays! Roberta in D

"Taria" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:6RGGi.5301$A72.1844@trnddc08...

But those straight lines would have been functional, even if not beautiful, and for may quilts that would have been the over-riding factor.

Lizzy

Thanks, Taria! That was fascinating. I think many of us knew that machine quilting wasn't entirely new, but how many of us realized that so many patents and inventions were around so long ago?

While you are "needling" them (pun intended), let them know that my 1890's treadle came with a quilting attachment, and several pages in the owner's manual were devoted to how wonderful the machine was at quilting. Same for my 1900 Singer treadle.

Heh. That's what I have. Back in "the day", ladies would go to the hardware/lumberyard here, and tell the proprieter, "Make me a quilt ing frame". They'd cut the boards, drill the holes, and attach the hooks and cord for hanging, for the cost of the materials only. I like it, actually. When I get tired of working on it, I just wind it up to the ceiling and forget about it for a while. They must not be very common anymore. I get a lot of remarks about it from various visitors/repairmen in the house and such.

Sherry

Wellll...okay but you have to promise not to laugh. I know how dreadfully archaeic it is, but it works!!

The pics are in the album called "Quilt in Progress"

Howdy!

I don't use a quilting frame. ;-)

R/Sandy

Hi Sherry,

Ask>> we want pix of it in its 'up and down' positions, Sherry.

"nzlstar*"wrote:

Sherry, thanks for posting those pics! The quilt is lovely, BTW. :) I've heard of these frames, of course, and even seen sketches; but I'd never seen photos of one before. That's a pretty cool way to store it! It wouldn't work in our climate, since so many ceiling fans would make a problem .

Oh, thank you. And thanks to Jeanne for drooling and not laughing. :-) But its use came about from practical reasons, not historic. I had heart surgery and couldn't work anymore. I didn't know what to do with myself not working. I thought I'd like to learn to quilt, but I could not afford to buy a frame, OR a sewing machine for a hobby I wasn't sure I'd like. So I drug out my mother's Singer 15-91 (that I didn't even know how to thread), and that quilting frame had been in the rafters of our shed for YEARS, it was my MIL's. She is in her late 80's now, but thankfully she was still able to come over and show me how to use it. That was 2 years ago. I've gotten the hang of it and I DO enjoy it, so much, even though I'll never turn out anything quilt-show-worthy or anything. Now I'm looking at new machines, and have looked at some of those Grace frames. They look really nice. I could sit in the living room if I had one of those. Or I could have 2 quilts in progress at once! :-)

Sherry