Quilt frame, Not
Yes, Pat those lace curtain stretchers were deadly and we got heck when we bled on the clean curtains. I just sent a note to the e-bay seller and she replied that several people had sent her the curtain stretcher information, but she said she is a 'textile' person so she knows they can be used for both things. Well, I for one wouldn't want to try because those sharp little pins stick up from the frame...yikes.
posted by blocke Oregon @ 11:37 AM
4 Comments:
At February 14, 2007 at 12:23 PM ,
Judy in Ohio said...
Looks to me as if that eBay seller is wasting her time and energy. Did you see the opening bid? And the shipping price? For curtain stretchers that you cannot even give away on a good day???!! LOL Who has lace curtains that need to be starched and stretched out to dry flat? Good grief! I remember helping my grandma and my mother with that chore when I was a girl and that is one vintage textile that I will never ever be interested in collecting. Thank goodness that fashion has gone the way of the buggy whip ... and even if you own a restored Victorian home you certainly would use lace curtains of modern fabrics.
Judy
At February 14, 2007 at 5:32 PM ,
blocke Oregon said...
Judy, I'll bet the original price could have been 1 l/10th of that --say 3.49. I know my mother considered more than 5 dollars a 'big ticket' item and she was one of those ladies who insisted on buying 'quality.' Go figure.
betty
At February 14, 2007 at 6:02 PM ,
Anonymous said...
I wonder if the E bay seller is a quilter...the first time I poked myself with one of those pins would be the last time...no way to avoid them if you were quilting something
Pat in Flint
At March 4, 2007 at 6:42 PM ,
Anonymous said...
My husband and I just moved into an older home where one of the repair people working on the house found this in the crawlspace of a 100 yr old house. He told me it was a quilt table. Being a quilter, I just HAD to drag my husband up to the attic to figure out how to put it together. Well, we got it assembled but I have to agree, it looks deadly and how the heck did you reach around it to quilt as it appears to stand tilted, like an easel. The curtain stretcher concept seems way more understandable. I guess it's back to my trustworthy (and non-bloodthirsty) Hinterburg Easy-Build for me. But I am grateful for the valuable info on it's real purpose before I could get into too much trouble trying to figure out how to use it. :-) Tracey in West Virginia
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