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Old 10-24-2003, 02:54 AM   #1
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Arrow 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?
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I love the speed of machine quilting but I love the feel and sense of calm that hand quilting gives.
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Old 10-31-2003, 12:24 PM   #3
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Everything I'm doing is by hand.
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