Does anyone besides me hand quilt without a frame? I have tendonitis and have an easier time just spray basting and spreading my quilt out on a table top. Do you have any ideas to amke it easier.

Cuppi,
I once had a student with a partial hand due to birth defects, who quilted full sized quilts in her lap with no hoop or frame. Her work was absolutely amazing and cured me of thinking there had to be one way for everybody!

I have quilted many quilts on a floor frame, but now much prefer to lean back in my big club chair with a hoop propped against it's arm or my tucked up knee to handquilt. Feels much easier on my neck than sitting leaning forward over a frame.

Jan in VA

Me........... on my lap no hoop. I have a floor frame but after awhile my shoulders hurt. I don't like a hoop for quilting or embroidering I don't like holding it. I safty pin NOT STRAIGHT PIN the heck out of it and then sit on the couch or comfy chair and quilt away.

I don't use a frame or hoop. I don't do any really fancy quilting, mostly free-form. The hoops frustrates me.

No hoop or frame for me either. I have tendonitis in my left wrist and trying to use a hoop aggravates it. I just drape it around me and over the ironing board in front of me (lowered to just above lap height). I've done 2 queen size quilts this way. This is also the way I hand sew my bindings on all my quilts. The ironing board gives just enough support and gives the dog a place to lay under.

Same here. I use no hoop or frame and prefer either working on a table or on my lap. And, I LOVE hand quilting.

No hoop for me either. I like the feel of all the fabric in my hands!

never used a frame ,always quilt sitting in an easy chair and if quilt is big drape it over a bedside table that goes nicely over my knees and on top of any dog on my knee too!

Thats the way I do it and have for years. Tryed a frame ,never again. maybe others have a better idea. Mine way is not broke so I'm not going to fix it.

I don't use a frame either. I have tried hoops of all sorts and always go back to the hoopless quilting. It's wonderful in the winter time to just snuggle under one and quilt away! Yummy!

I am hand quilting a wallhanging right now and am not using a frame. It can be done if the quilt sandwich has been basted very good. I don't know about a full size bed quilt cuz have never tried it. I bet the same holds true--it can be done if the basting job is a good one.


Chris

I don't use a frame or hoop, just drape the quilt over my knees, cats, dog, whatever. I like being able to move the quilt. I'm working on my 5th bed size quilt.

I'm Fairly new at quilting and I'm glad to hear that because I find my self miserable with a hoop.... I just would like some insite on quilting this way without getting little tucks. Maybe the spray basting would work better for me in small areas at a time any sugguestions

I use spray baste on my quilts but I still pin about every 8-10 inches apart. I pin a little more around the outside edges on large quilts. It takes me a while to finish a handquilting project plus I move it around and put it away sometimes. This keeps it from shifting position; I don't know how long spray baste alone would keep holding it correctly. (to be honest I have a quilt I started a year ago and it's in the cupboard, don't know when I'll get back to it. With the pins and spray basting, I know it will stay in place) Just keep checking the back and smoothing it as needed, moving the pins if necessary. Good luck.

I've tried quilting on a frame and on a hoop and neither is comfortble for me. I'm going to try hand quilt using neither as others have done. I hope I will like this method better. I've always been told you needed a frame or a hoop and everyone I know uses one or the other. Didn't know it was possible without one. Hope it works out for me because I love the look of hand quilting.

My hands don't work with a frame or hoop for quilting. Being totally right-handed, as long as I get get my left hand to the underside of the quilt, I can stitch just fine. After pinning (checking and double-checking the sandwich), I start quilting as near to the center as I can and work outward in all directions. Works for me!