Originally Posted by
Tartan
Are you looking for a frame big enough for all of you to sit around? If so a low cost frame can be made by 1X3 lumber and 4 C clamps. You staple a sturdy leader strip of fabric to 2 of the bars for pinning the quilt back to and stretch the backing fabric and C clamp the other to bars on to firm a large square. Put the square up on the backs of 4 chairs and you are ready to lay on the batt and top. Pin the top to the cloth leaders and adjust the C clamps so that the whole sandwich is taut. Start quilting on the leader sides and roll the quilt around the 1 X 3 as you want to advance.
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My mothe and I used this method for tieing all of our quilts years ago works well. It would work well for hand quilting too. Just don't use to firm a weave fabric like good muslin or old sheeting as you can't pin thru it we learned the hard way. Use a looser weave for your leader fabric and use 2-3 thickness of it.