Originally Posted by
Sew Freak
OF COURSE NOT! But I doubt there is anyone who would 'want' and 'like' to sew a whole quilt w/o a sewing machine. I sew by hand what I cannot sew easily with a machine. I wonder if those who quilted (or sewed) by hand for centuries wouldn't have welcomed a sewing machine 'centuries' ago?!!
Actually...people DO still sew entire quilts (piecing and quilting) by hand! Not *me*, but other people with more time and more dexterous fingers than I have. I just recently joined a quilt guild and there is a group of ladies doing English paper pieced hexie quilts and every single stitch is by hand. Amazing work, those tiny stitches are truly impressive, and the hexies are just one inch per side so everything is so tiny! Very cute and very precise and not something I have the patience for at all, although I'm strangely drawn to trying it out. Maybe I can make a pillow cover or something small, LOL. It looks amazing.