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Old 12-06-2006, 12:39 PM
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Norah
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My mother-in-law used 2 1x4inch x10 foot boards to which she tacked muslin to pin the ends of the quilt. She then rolled the boards with the quilt until she could reach across and clamped them at the ends to 2 shorter boards with a c-clamp to maintain a tension. Place them on the backs of chairs, or whatever else is handy for height, and quilt away. When you have to get it out of the way, it will lean behind the couch or against a wall if there is room. In the old days, they would hang them on pulleys and ropes to the ceiling, and raise it out of the way until needed. A little primitive, but I have used them alot, and they are no more hard to use than a regular quilting frame for me. The thing I like about them is that they are always long enough, and my fancy quilt frame is not.
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