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Repairing a quilt, part 2
Some months ago, I made a post about repairing a quilt that my
grandmother had made when I was really little (I think when I was born). I took a look at it, and it requires a bit more work than I originally thought, but I decided to repair it any way. In fact, at one point I considered buying the appropriate fabrics and just entirely making a new quilt in the same pattern, it is a very simple pattern, which I will describe in the following paragraphs, that is within even my skills, but I decided to repair the quilt. The quilt consists is a 7x8 arrangement of ~8" blocks (I will measure to be absolutely certain of the size) with a simple white backing. The blocks aren't anything fancy like a courthouse steps, a whatever-state-star, or something other pieced block, they are merely gingham prints in the colors yellow, purple, brown or pink, with a few solid white interspersed amongst the gingham prints. As far as I can tell the batting is just a piece of slightly heavier material, it is not regular quilt batting, or even white fleece, which I suppose could be used as "ultra-thin" batting. The quilting isn't freehand or even "in the ditch", but rather is 3 squares, with the sides of the largest being about 1" in from the outside of the block, another being another inch in, and the smallest square being another inch in. I guess my grandmother had more of the purple, yellow, and white than the pink and brown because most of the quilt is those 3 colors and there are only 3 each of the pink and brown. I need to replace the purple and yellow squares in the quilt. On further examination of the quilt, I decided that I also needed to replace the backing and binding as well, and that is why I pondered making an entirely new quilt or just forgetting it. I also pondered putting "real" batting in it, but decided not to do that. I am also pondering putting a label on it that says something like: "Originally made by Ruth Sherwood, 1961, repaired by Brian Christiansen, 2016." I will try to take pictures of the various stages in repairing the quilt and perhaps put up a "pictoral history" of the repair process on my flickr account. -- Brian Christiansen |
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