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look similar to the frames the quilting guild i go to uses. the quilt is basted to the fabric on the wood, then the wood pieces are laid across chairs to hold them for hand quilting with lots of people getting around the edges. quilt starts from outside and goes in during quilting process, getting rolled as it gets quilted. the hanging feature would be to hang it somewhere out of the way when you aren't using it.
Antiques was what I was thinking also. Not from experience but from what my Dad told me about his Mom quilting. Granny's frame was like the one auntpiggylpn was talking about, raised to the ceiling during the day out of the way. Daddy is 79 so the frames were around a while back.
Robin inTX
They look like antique frames that were hung from the ceiling. The muslin is to sew or pin the quilt to so that you could quilt to the edge.. BUY THEM!!!
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Suzi
My grandma told me when she was a little girl, that her little brother set a broom on fire, and then ran through the house and caught her grandma's hanging quilting frame on fire.
Yep, I'd grab them up too...
Crossing my fingers she still has them in the morning. I found the ad too late to call tonight.
I have an idea of how I might use one as a sort of canopy/headboard in our spare room...
"And I guess I might have made a few mistakes.
But maybe that's exactly what it takes.
To get a little happy in this big sad world..."
One Line Wonder, The Avett Brothers
I didn't see any uprights for the ends----------maybe they were not shownOriginally Posted by dixie_fried
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This had to be a hanging quilting frame.....they hung from the ceiling and were ratcheted up to the ceiling when not in use. There's no historical value, probably, as there were hundreds and hundreds of these things all over the US, used as recently as the 1980s that I personally saw in Alabama and Oklahoma.
If you have chairs with a back that isn't rounded or that have a short ladder back, then you also use those to support the frame instead of hanging it.
See if you can get it for less; I wouldn't pay even $15 if I could help it.
Jan in VA
Jan in VA
Living in the foothills
peacefully colors my world.
oops! just saw Jan's reply. I wonder how they work?
It looks like it is just the poles with the leaders attached. But no frame or anything.
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