BYC SEWING/QUILTING CLUB

[Swiffer Duster Frizzle]

That's beautiful!
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Quilting and sewing here. Working on a Warm Wishes Chicken fabric quilt top tonight. Might have it ready to post pictures tomorrow, if I'm lucky and it is raining again tomorrow, so I can sew. I have at least 15 quilt tops done that need to have the backings done....love doing the tops, dislike the finishing of them. And refuse to pay to have them done by someone else.

Learned to sew by osmosis as my mother did tailoring when I was growing up. I thought needles on the floor were a normal hazard to avoid.

Here's a wall hanging that I thought I had a finished photo of...but now I see it is missing the pears that I appliqued in the four corners. Oh well at least it is done.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/2200_dudley_050.jpg

 

[WriterofWords]

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The boards peg together with two dowel pins for each corner. You could use two long bolts with nuts instead of pegs.
The boards are in pairs.
An example for using them The two longer boards are lengths and the two shorter ones are for width.
In the old days, you pegged the frame as near to the size of your working sandwich (top, batting, backing). Often the backing cloth was larger and was sewn into a tube on two opposite ends to stretch the quilt on the frame. Then the other pair of board were pegged/bolted to secure the the other pair of sides. Sometimes an extra strip of fabric was basted onto the backing fabric and then stitched around the boards to pull the quilt into square so it could be quilted. The frame could be suspended from the ceiling to store it out of the way and lowered to work on in the evenings.
My MIL has a set of boards very similiar to your set.
Send me your address in a PM and I'll try to get you some working drawings to go by.

PM on the way!! Thank you so much!!

 

[mema2003]

Nanakat is right. They are quilting frames and works just like she said. I had some pieces that different ladies around here gathered up for me too use if I ever get my quilt top ready. After several years of asking everyone about momma's and after the ladies here gave me a set, I found momma's at my cousin's house. She gave them too me and said she never dreamed that I would be the one too take up quilting. SHHHHHSHHHHH don't tell her, I am not getting very far with quilting. Right now I have them on the wall along with some more antique stuff. People say my living room looks like an old country store. I wanted it too look like a cabin!!!

 

[WriterofWords]

I'm looking forward to trying them out. They seem so simple, just 4 long pieces~!

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Hey ya'll! I've got another Block Swap going if you are interested (this means YOU Kate!) You have until December to finish the blocks!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=478003

 

[WriterofWords]

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So it's cut out a square and send it right? No piecing, sewing, measuring, all that hard stuff???

 

[CoyoteMagic]

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So it's cut out a square and send it right? No piecing, sewing, measuring, all that hard stuff???

LOL Not quiet! I am trying to expand your knowledge of quilting!! Yeah that's it! You can peice, now let's see you applique

 

[Kassaundra]

I got excited when I saw your post, then saw it was aplique, but this one is much easier then the gecko, not so many tight turns.

 

[CoyoteMagic]

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Sorry, I do 90% applique. I can't make 2 peiced blocks come out the same size

 

[ginbart]

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Sorry, I do 90% applique. I can't make 2 peiced blocks come out the same size

APLIQUE, APLIQUE, APLIQUE, your aplique is driving me crazy.

never will I do it again.

However I am getting them done and will be done this week. I promise.