Grandma's Quilting Frame or Older
Hi All,
This is my first post and hopefully there are some folks out there who are familiar with antiques and what I am about to share. I inherited my Grandmother's (maybe Great-Grandmother) quilting frame. I have tried twice to figure out how it goes together and today I spent some more time on it and I believe I finally have a rough idea. I will try to attach some photos.
I suppose it was used for quilting bees or whatever at one time. It stands 96 3/4" Long X 34" Wide X
31 1/2" High. It looks like there should be four gears, but there only two and only two pawls that would lock the gears in place and those are located at opposite ends from each other. There are also only 2 pencil-shaped pegs (about 5" long) that are inserted into holes to lock the long spindles in place so the quilt doesn't turn while the ladies are working on it. The legs are mortised into the top frame and secured with wood dowels. The only metal on this are the 2 screws securing the pawls.
The kicker is that there appears to be two extra sets of legs and I have no idea where they go. Do they belong to the main frame somewhere? They can't stand alone because there's nothing to support them, but they have holes to place the pencil-shaped pegs. These are 35 1/2" Long X 3" Wide X 32" High. The legs are also mortised.
I apologize for the length of this post, but I wanted give describe it as thoroughly as possible. Any information is greatly appreciated.