Originally Posted by davidwent
As a child I remember watching my grandmother make me a quilt, that I still have some 50 years later. She had a treadle sew matching a pair of scissors and a fabric tape measure. Her quilts were/are amazing.
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What you're saying here is your grandmother used all the new fangled tools of her time. The treadle machines made it possible to make a man's shirt in 1 hour versus 40 hours by hand. It was a time saver, just like the LAs are time savers.
Quilting is basically attaching 3 layers together so they don't shift. I'm not saying the old or new is better one over the other. But what I don't like is some members of each group snub the other. Both methods create wonderful quilts.
I have 5 old quilts of my G-GMs. They appear to be hand quilted, but machine pieced. I love and treasure them.