Quilting without frame
#1
Does anyone besides me hand quilt without a frame? I have tendonitis and have an easier time just spray basting and spreading my quilt out on a table top. Do you have any ideas to amke it easier.
#2
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Piedmont Virginia in the Foothills of the Blue Ridge Mtns.
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Cuppi,
I once had a student with a partial hand due to birth defects, who quilted full sized quilts in her lap with no hoop or frame. Her work was absolutely amazing and cured me of thinking there had to be one way for everybody!
I have quilted many quilts on a floor frame, but now much prefer to lean back in my big club chair with a hoop propped against it's arm or my tucked up knee to handquilt. Feels much easier on my neck than sitting leaning forward over a frame.
Jan in VA
I once had a student with a partial hand due to birth defects, who quilted full sized quilts in her lap with no hoop or frame. Her work was absolutely amazing and cured me of thinking there had to be one way for everybody!
I have quilted many quilts on a floor frame, but now much prefer to lean back in my big club chair with a hoop propped against it's arm or my tucked up knee to handquilt. Feels much easier on my neck than sitting leaning forward over a frame.
Jan in VA
#3
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: dreaming of a simple life. Living off the grid!
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Me........... on my lap no hoop. I have a floor frame but after awhile my shoulders hurt. I don't like a hoop for quilting or embroidering I don't like holding it. I safty pin NOT STRAIGHT PIN the heck out of it and then sit on the couch or comfy chair and quilt away.
#5
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: western Pa
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No hoop or frame for me either. I have tendonitis in my left wrist and trying to use a hoop aggravates it. I just drape it around me and over the ironing board in front of me (lowered to just above lap height). I've done 2 queen size quilts this way. This is also the way I hand sew my bindings on all my quilts. The ironing board gives just enough support and gives the dog a place to lay under.
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