How many quilted - PRC - Pre rotary cutter?
#112
I did. I started quilting in 1983. I used templates to create my first 2 quilts- a dresden plate and an ohio star. I don't have photos but I sitll have the ohio star. It is very worn and faded since it had been well used.
#113
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Originally Posted by SueSew
When my daughter was born in 1983 I had made her a cheery little quilt - rail fence with 1" strips, all red, yellow, blue calicoes.
Never heard of a rotary cutter. Made second quilt in 2011, still hadn't heard of it. Now I can't live without it.
I also pre-date the ball-point pen, pantyhose, TV...
Never heard of a rotary cutter. Made second quilt in 2011, still hadn't heard of it. Now I can't live without it.
I also pre-date the ball-point pen, pantyhose, TV...
#114
I have a friend and neighbor that draws every piece and cuts it out with scissors and hand pieces the top and hand quilts the quilt. it takes me a week just to hand sew the binding I would die before one top was finished this way by hand. Three cheers for rotary cutters and electric sewing machines.
#116
I didn't do any quilting before the rotary cutter but I did do a lot of cutting with templates and scissors for my MIL. She made me a couple of quilts that I cut most of the pieces for. I treasure them because they're stitched and quilted by hand.
#117
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Location: Southeast Michigan
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My first quilt, almost 50 years ago, was a butterfly quilt for my daughter. I got the pattern from my Mother=in=law. It was appliqued, by machine & of course cut with scizzors. Didn't have quality fabrics, and is long gone. :roll:
#118
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I made my first quilt after DD was born in 1972. Yeah -- scissors and cardboard from cereal boxes. I made a few quilts for my children and to give as gifts -- flannel with really poofy poly batting and I tied them. After DS was born I watched some VERY early Eleanor Burns on TV (she was in her attic, I believe). I learned a lot, but I was more interested in making clothes than quilts.
I came back to quilting in 1999 -- and thank goodness for rotary cutters!!!
I came back to quilting in 1999 -- and thank goodness for rotary cutters!!!
#119
I too, started in the late 80's, and pre rotary. I can remember using bottles, etc. for patterns and quilting. My first piece was a drunkards path wall hanging, (as I was famous for starting HUGE projects and never finishing them), and no one told me that doing a curved piece was so hard to do. Been hooked ever since.
Judy
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#120
I began quilting in 1972 and lived on Kodiak Island in Alaska. Couldn't even buy fabric there but on each flight to the mainland I would get my husband to buy a little yardage. Used scissors, cardboard templates, and Quilters Newsletter magazine was a black and white publication that taught me a lot.
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