How many people use a long armer?

[Bubby]

My longarmer lives about a mile from me and I took three projects to her yesterday. I only machine quilt small items like table runners and placemats. I used to hand quilt everything until arthritis moved into my quilting hand. I don't think of sending my quilts out for quilting as cheating...I consider it a treat after all the quilts I've made totally by hand.

When I was a little girl and lived in the country with my grandparents and great grammy, we would go into the cotton fields and pick sacks of cotton and it would be processed and used as batting in many of the old family quilts! I can feel a few cotton seeds in some of the battings. This is pretty common with old quilts that were made in the south.