Hand quilting the old fashioned way

Old fashioned mamma · 10-24-2003, 02:54 AM

When I first started quilting years ago, I always quilting my quilts with my sewing machine. Then a friend on a site I was on encouraged me to hand quilt and I've never looked back.

I love hand quilting. I love the calming effect it has on you, when you sit in a rocking chair and quilt away, making the stitches as tiny as you can. There is just something about it that reminds me of the pioneers and how they would sit and quilt by candlelight or gather in quilting bees to share stories and quilt away.

Do you enjoy hand quilting or is all your quilting done by machine?

Katybird · 10-30-2003, 09:34 PM

I love the speed of machine quilting but I love the feel and sense of calm that hand quilting gives.

Aussie Mamma · 10-31-2003, 12:24 PM

Everything I'm doing is by hand.

10-24-2003, 02:54 AM	#1
Old fashioned mamma Heirloom Rose Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Manitoba, Canada Posts: 3,741 Thanks: 39 Thanked 15 Times in 13 Posts	Hand quilting the old fashioned way When I first started quilting years ago, I always quilting my quilts with my sewing machine. Then a friend on a site I was on encouraged me to hand quilt and I've never looked back. I love hand quilting. I love the calming effect it has on you, when you sit in a rocking chair and quilt away, making the stitches as tiny as you can. There is just something about it that reminds me of the pioneers and how they would sit and quilt by candlelight or gather in quilting bees to share stories and quilt away. Do you enjoy hand quilting or is all your quilting done by machine? __________________ "You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt." Author Unknown

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10-30-2003, 09:34 PM	#2
Katybird Daisy Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 34 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I love the speed of machine quilting but I love the feel and sense of calm that hand quilting gives.

10-31-2003, 12:24 PM	#3
Aussie Mamma Heirloom Rose Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: FL Posts: 582 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Everything I'm doing is by hand.

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