Seems too risky to me.
#22
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 36
The old quilting frame works the best for keeping the fabrics taunt while quilting. I learned how to do this at my church quilt guild years ago. It was most fun and I enjoyed it very much. I wish I had a group like that again. Hand quilting is beautiful. We seem to have lost that way..now its all done alone so it is a different process.
#23
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: East Tennessee
Posts: 1,102
The old quilting frame works the best for keeping the fabrics taunt while quilting. I learned how to do this at my church quilt guild years ago. It was most fun and I enjoyed it very much. I wish I had a group like that again. Hand quilting is beautiful. We seem to have lost that way..now its all done alone so it is a different process.
#24
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: North Texas
Posts: 1,283
I belong to a handquilting bee and we have our quilts machine basted by a longarm quilting then attach it to a board on 2 sides so that it can be rolled as we work. The other two sides are pinned to another set of boards when we set it up each week. Before we started using a longarm quilter for basting we hand basted it before starting to quilt. Since we take it down and set it up again each week basting seems to help keep everything in place.
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#25
When my youngest daughter was going to get married, she wanted a double wedding ring quilt. So I had an Amish neighbor piece it. Then I had a quilting at my house and invited my Amish friends. They put the quilt in a square frame made out of boards. It was completely stretched out and secured to the boards, with no basting. They started quilting on all sides, meeting in the middle. Starting about 9:30 am, they had the quilt out by 3:30 pm. We all had a great time. The quilt was beautiful. such good friends and neighbors.
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