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Old January 19th 21, 02:59 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc
Joy Beeson
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On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 13:12:55 +0700, John B.
wrote:

Don't they use "quilting frames" any more. I vaguely remember at a
State Fair once seeing some ladies demonstrating how to make quilts
and they something similar to a "sweater drying" frame except much
larger.


I used to have one of those, and felt a bit guilty using it for a toy
when my great-great grandmothers had to make do with much-inferior
frames for serious work.

I wonder what I did with it?

I used it as a large embroidery hoop, but I did make a quilt out of a
patchwork door curtain; even though I used large stitches and stitched
only along the edges of the blocks, it took a long and tedious time;
no wonder that when quilts were serious bed covering, they held
"quilting parties", so that several women could work at the same time,
and they had somebody to talk to while they were sewing. Or at least
so I gather from old books.

The quilt clips are for machine quilting, when you roll the quilt from
both sides toward the part you want to quilt, to make it fit through
the throat of a sewing machine.

I saw a quilting frame set up at Lowery's once, with a rail on which a
sewing machine could slide back and forth to quilt a strip all the way
across. I presumed at the time that such things were sold to people
who quilt quilts that other people have pieced. I don't recall how
patterns were made; I think maybe the machine could be moved for and
aft as well as back and forth.

I thought that sewing machines with extra-wide throats were "long-arm
machines", but Wikipedia says that "long arm" refers to a machine a
step bigger than the quilting frame I saw at Lowery's, with the
sewing-machine head on a small cherry-picker arm.

I couldn't find a name for a sewing machine with an extra-large
throat.

I did find a picture of one, for sale for thousands of dollars.

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