Thread: A $5.26 quilt
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Old 05-11-2010, 08:51 AM
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Originally Posted by raptureready
You can usually tell by the quilting stitches if it's one of the quilts that are handmade yet mass produced in China that you can buy at almost any flea market. If the quilting stitches are almost 1/4" then it most likely is. But either way it's pretty and well worth what she paid. The stitches in the picture don't look nearly that big.
I agree the "handmade" ones from the store have very large stitching, they can be pretty, but won't hold up nearly as well as a real handquilted one. Still a bargain at that price no matter what.
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