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    Old 11-06-2008, 08:23 AM
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    Maybe a tutorial specifically for all those neat little triangle rulers? Especially the Tri-Recs... those would make things like 54-40 Or Fight so much easier! Or a Flying Geese ruler....
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    Old 11-06-2008, 10:00 AM
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    Originally Posted by Moonpi
    I feel so ancient.
    When I started quilting, there WERE no lines on the cutting mats!
    Too funny!! When I started quilting, there were no CUTTING MATS!! :lol:
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    Old 11-08-2008, 01:45 PM
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    Originally Posted by nor'easter
    Originally Posted by Moonpi
    I feel so ancient.
    When I started quilting, there WERE no lines on the cutting mats!
    Too funny!! When I started quilting, there were no CUTTING MATS!! :lol:

    We used sharp scissors only, and I am still pretty good with them. So I am past old.
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    Old 11-08-2008, 02:43 PM
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb-6C...eature=related

    http://www.ezquilt.com/tutorials/trirecs/trirecs.htm
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    Old 11-08-2008, 05:43 PM
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    Originally Posted by nor'easter
    Originally Posted by Moonpi
    I feel so ancient.
    When I started quilting, there WERE no lines on the cutting mats!
    Too funny!! When I started quilting, there were no CUTTING MATS!! :lol:
    Amen to that!! I made my first quilt in 1981 and I hated cutting everything with scissors and using cardboard templates. In fact, I disliked it so much that I did not quilt again until 1999!! Love those cutting mats...........and rotary cutters, and rulers, and everything else that makes the job so much fun now!!!!
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    Old 11-09-2008, 06:49 AM
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    Originally Posted by Marcia
    Originally Posted by nor'easter
    Originally Posted by Moonpi
    I feel so ancient.
    When I started quilting, there WERE no lines on the cutting mats!
    Too funny!! When I started quilting, there were no CUTTING MATS!! :lol:
    Amen to that!! I made my first quilt in 1981 and I hated cutting everything with scissors and using cardboard templates. In fact, I disliked it so much that I did not quilt again until 1999!! Love those cutting mats...........and rotary cutters, and rulers, and everything else that makes the job so much fun now!!!!
    Started with scissors only back in the early 1970's. Can you imagine our grandmothers? Mine was born in 1899 & all she ever used were scissors.
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    Old 11-09-2008, 08:08 AM
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    I can't imagine using a trendle machine or whatever it was called. Ran by a foot lever. It's like a stair stepper when you are sitting. No walking foot, no quarter inch foot, no way of cutting all sorts of pieces at the same time...then all that sewing by hand too.

    I'm such a 21st century girl. I would be completely lost in the 19th century. I love the history of that time period, but not the idea of living in it!
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    Old 11-09-2008, 08:11 AM
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    It's a treadle machine. Some of them had a really nice stitch.

    I kind of wish I had one, in case our electricity conks out.

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