Do you know what OFLA means?
#11
I started around 1990 with a friend showing me how to trace around a 4 inch square cardboard piece, we were both about 20. After making about a zillion traced squares, I then got to cut out each one. The only kind of quilt she knew how to piece was the 9 patch (looked like a checker board), we pieced and quilted several of those for her young children and my unborn baby. The elder women in her family apparently did all the piecing, but all the females helped with the quilting. I made clothes for about 10 years after that and started learning to quilt again in 2000. I was really impressed by all the quilt notions at that time, and now there's even more things to play/work with!
#14
Those women back in the day did know how to cut precise pieces!!! I made a star quilt for my mom out of a ton of diamond pieces that my grandmother cut out before she died in 1945. I thought I'd have to square them up - but didn't have to do that to any of the pieces!! They were perfecto!!!
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I too thought scandanavian.......hmm,.....kudos to him!!!!!!I started quilting when the rotary cutter was the way to do it...I really wonder if I would have attempted it with cardboard and scissors..........
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