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Taughtby Grandma
The holes are drilled so when you tie the quilt to the frame you alternate with the edge of the quilt then through the frame and back. Like a whip stitch. Then tighten the string to make the top tight for quilting. There are four boards to the frame. You take the end boards and roll them as you quilt.
Yes. My grandmother used frames like that and suspended them from the ceiling to get it out of the way when not in used. I think the frames are in my sister's possession now. My grandmother passed in 1971. She had used it so long that two of the boards were warped into a curve from the tension in stretching the quilt on it.