Originally Posted by patimint
My mother always ssid "machine quilting really isn't quilting". I love to hand quilt, but I have decided after seeing many of your examples of machine quilting, to learn to machine quilt. I won't tell my Mom. She passed away a few weeks ago so I don't think she will know.
When I was young and my grandmother got her treadle sewing machine she started sewing her quilt tops on her sewing machine.She still quilted them by hand, by choice.I'm pretty sure if rotary cutters had been around then,she would have snapped one up. Did that make her too modernized? All the ladies in her sewing circle started doing this too. The ladies that didn't have a treadle machine yet,well the the ones that did shared theirs. I do think the quilting contest do need to be in separate sections. But I don't think there is no moderniazation. I'll just bet that my granny would be one of the first in line to snap up a microwave oven,she was a "modern" lady,evolving all the time.