I recently finished a customer quilt repair. A gentleman contacted me about repairing a quilt belonging to his fiancée. The quilt contained pieces of her grandmother’s clothing. Her grandmother died when this woman was a very young girl, so these scraps of her clothing are very sentimental to her.
This quilt had been well-loved. In fact, some of the batting had been loved right out of it! After picking out all of the stitches, I took the pieces I could salvage out of the shirting print (light fabric with flowers) and made appliqués which I stitched onto new fabric. I repaired a few tears in the other fabric and then pieced the quilt back together as I had found it. I then replaced the batting, backing and binding. It was all I could do not to quilt it; the customer specifically requested that I not quilt it at all.
This was a surprise gift so I hope she liked the rejuvenated quilt and that it will last for years and years to come.
Lesson I learned after almost exclusively handling cotton fabrics: polyester is S – T – R – E – T – C – H – Y ! ! !
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