I made a Double Wedding Ring completely by hand once, including cutting out all the pieces with scissors. I thought it would be neat to make a quilt the way our great-grandmothers did.

It took me 6 years and turned out fantastic. Would I do it again? Naaaaa...[ATTACH=CONFIG]345788[/ATTACH]

sometimes I enjoy theb old my but since my hands has gotten more arthritis and I have slowed down so much I don't do as much as I would like but I do count myself very fortunate as I took many classes when quilting was making a comeback before the rotary cutter and I learned many things that I can now translate ocer to quicker methods one class I am so thankful that I took was pattern drafting and being able to take any pattern and change the block size
plus the many others have also took many new classes that are wonderful such as free motion hand embroidery by machine also hand applique by machine so there really is some great new ways too

Please join me in remembering that right now, this very instant, is someone's "good old days" and that, most probably, you and I are someone's ancestors.

Hope they don't get my nose.

Par

The new way isolates me in a room away from the family. With templates, hand piecing and quilting I work off a tv tray in family area. I love that ! But these days I combine both methods. I do what is convent at the time!

I began an interest in quilting back in the late 70's and early 80's but didn't get too far along. It was mostly big squares of calico for the top, a thin old blanket for the batting, a big sheet for the backing and a few rows of straight stitching to keep the blanket in place. Also made a few throw pillows with squares cut from a cardboard pattern, they came out kind of crooked but were useful on the couch. First time I really began to see that quilt could be decorative as well a useful was when I say a movie with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase, Chevy was her ex husband and kept interferring with her marriage.

Yep, I do.

J J

Not completely....however I do use templates and outline pieces on fabric because I just cannot get the rotary cutter thing down. Hopeless, I think.

when i learned to quilt they didnt have rotarty cutters i learned to do everything by hand as my quilt teacher didnt sew on a machine she now a world known quilter love doing most of mine by hand!!!

I love the rotary cutting and do piece on my machine, but I quilt by hand. I have these great frames and set up in my spare guest room. It usually takes me 6-8 months to do the quilting, as I work a full time job, but I just enjoy the process and don't get in a hurry. My grandmother always had a basket of pieces she had cut out from paper templates, and she hand stitched the quilt tops. I don't think I have the skill for that. Also feel the same way about machine quilting. I consider myself quite accomplished just to be able to sew a straight 1/4 in seam while piecing, but trying to man handle the whole quilt sandwich thru a machine would do me in.

Me too, I don't like the hand work at all, hate having to do the binding by hand. Beside mine hands ache way too much after I do it to make it worthwhile for me.