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Originally Posted by Zeke
You say hand stitched. That must take months.
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There is "hand stitched" which is literally done with needle and thread.
This is a hand stitched quilt that Vicki has been working on for 20 years. It's about 60x80 inches and every stitch was done with a needle and thread, 15 stitches per inch.
Then there is "Machine stitched" in which the sewing is done by a machine that is guided by hand.
Most of the quilts in the museum are machine stitched or a combination of machine and hand stitched. This is a block of a quilt Vicki is doing that is destined for the museum. It is 12"x12" and has 166 individual pieces of fabric sewn into it. The final quilt will have 9 of these blocks. She hasn't decided which method to use to do the actual quilting.
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Originally Posted by Zeke
However, I have a hard time believing CNC isn't involved somehow. The ability to create or scan a pattern into a file and use a machine to layout the quilt has changed the game big time.
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And then there is automated quilting that you are talking about that uses Mach 3 - a two dimensional CNC software.
We have an Innova long arm "CNC" quilting machine that I run for Vicki. There are hundreds of off the shelf patterns or we can create a new pattern of our own, as you mentioned. We can disconnect the belts that move the sew head by computer control and use the big handles to move the sew head by hand - which is "machine stitching."
