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07-30-2011, 09:47 AM

#101

mimiknoxtaylor

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lol! Thanks for bringing a smile to my face! Made my 1st quilt back in the old days of the 60's, drawing cutting lines with a pencil & sometimes a yard stick. Using scissors & getting a hand cramp. When rotary cutters first came out a friend had one & raved about it. I tried hers & said "nice but I'd never want it". Right-now I can't do without one.

07-30-2011, 09:52 AM

#102

SUZAG

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Back in '79, $35 was worth a lot more...

07-30-2011, 09:56 AM

#103

nannyrick

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Location: Western New York

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Oh my, I just couldn't stop watching. This is incredible.
So much work, yet she made it look so easy.
This was worthwhile watching.
Thanks.

07-30-2011, 10:05 AM

#104

sandyo

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Location: Appleton, WI

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BigDog

Quote:

Originally Posted by chergram

I tried to watch but could not get the sound would very much like to watch as I am very interested in doing quilts the old time way I tried to turn up sound as as much would go on computer but did not work can some one tell me how to get sound up so can hear if there is anyone on the board that still cuts with sissors and template frugal quilting I would very much like to hear from them so pm me if interested

The sound on the video is almost nonexistent. I didn't have time to watch the entire video and will try again later, but I can't hear what they're saying at all. These newer computers have horrible sound cards.

look on the left side of the video there is a link to the transcript.

07-30-2011, 10:17 AM

#105

lbc

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Join Date: Jun 2010

Location: Vallejo, California

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Fun to watch. I'm glad we have all of our tools to work with. I don't think she made too much profit selling them so reasonably.

07-30-2011, 10:30 AM

#106

desertrose

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Location: Northern New Hampshire

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Michael, Thank you for posting this site. It reminded me of when we used to meet at our 4-H leaders house and we were being taught to sew. Everything thing was hand made. Templates, stencils and the hand made quilting racks. Everyones was slighty different to accomidate the person space to quilt. Thank you for beinging back long forgotten memories. :D

07-30-2011, 11:05 AM

#107

Drew

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Join Date: Jul 2010

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Thanks for the video. I can remember cutting with scissors. Her precision was fantastic! Wish I had that knowledge! Hopefully, we can all learn from this.

07-30-2011, 11:47 AM

#108

Olivia's Grammy

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Location: Fayetteville, GA

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That was so awesome. She was delightful to watch. When I hand quilted I hung my frame from the ceiling too.

07-30-2011, 11:50 AM

#109

grannyp70

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Join Date: Jan 2010

Location: Louisiana

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WOW, that is such a great video, it sure brings back a lot of child hood memories, my mom use to make her quilts the same way. Thanks so much for sharing.

07-30-2011, 12:37 PM

#110

Stitchit123

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Location: Lebanon Missouri

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I still do a majority of my cutting with scissors I forget I have a rotary cutter til I'm all but done The only gadgets I have is scissors -seam rippers and my basically new rotary and lots of straight and safety pins. Now I'm wondering if I should have more gadgets.--please tell me I'm not OLD :cry: