Around 1957 my Mother set up this frame in our living room in Leonia, Florida. For a couple of weeks ladies from the community made a large number of quilts.
They would first do the top and bottom then lay out rolls of cotton, then tie the tops, bottoms and cotton together. They stood around that frame and gossiped.
Other children got Mothers but I do recall they were very fine quilts and all the ladies had obviously done it before.
I’m in a hand quilting group in TN. We don’t tie them off, but do actual quilting. And it’s very social, with the big plus being beautiful quilts at the end.
Growing up, our church’s ladies group had quilting bees. We kids would sit under the frame while the ladies quilting and talked. We learned a lot just bu listening.