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Originally Posted by SillySusan
(Post 8172678)
Or tell him to plant the cotton, pick it, card and spin it, etc. Then you would think about it!
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Well I can say I have done it all. I pieced by hand, quilted by hand, machine pieced and quilted. I consider all of that quilting and love it all. I am in a hand quilting group that meets weekly. We are about 25 women and range in age from mid 40’s to our oldest member who will celebrate her 99th birthday soon. Go ahead and sock your BIL in the throat and while he is recovering read him all of these responses from real quilters.
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If I quilted a few hundred years ago I would have quilted by hand, I would also have baked with a wooden spoon, but hey things have moved on I use an electric mixer and an electric sewing machine. BTW we would also have traveled by horse and car, so I now I use planes and cars does that mean I don’t travel? What an idiot.
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Thank you all for the replies. You all pegged him right, he is a know-it-all and as soon as my DH told me what he’d said, my first thought was that he’d never get a quilt from me. And yes, he is older (upper 60’s) and feels he is an authority on all things. Good news is he’s returning home right after the funeral we’re attending today. Hopefully I won’t have to encounter his jerk attitude about my quilting but if I do, I’ll be ready!
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As soon as there were machines, people quite sensibly used them to quilt. That's what they were for, making seams. I don't do a lot of handwork, I don't applique either but I'm still a real quilter and my quilts are still "real". My machines are machine sewn, machine quilted, and designed to be machine washable.
I started reading the Elm Creek Quilt series by Jennifer Chiaverini this past year. She talks about it some in book 4 (the last one I read), The Runaway Quilt where they are discussing/the story behind some pre-Civil War quilts (two of which were machine sewn). |
Originally Posted by NZquilter
(Post 8172626)
When people say that to me I ask they if they wash clothes by hand or cook over and open fire. When they say no I say "So you actually cannot cook/wash laundry? It's not real if not done by hand."
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My usual response to such ignorance is “ thank you for the helpful information”....if stated with “the Look”....folks know what I rally mean
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Originally Posted by PatriceJ
(Post 8172661)
go ahead and punch him in the throat.
just make sure there are no witnesses! :p |
As they say "ignorance is bliss" and your BIL sounds like my SIL and she definitely lives a very "blissful life", an expert about everything and knowledgeable about nothing. I feel sorry for people like that. As we say in the south, "bless their hearts".
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My comeback to that and I get that same lame comment a lot is: That time has passed, thank goodness.
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