How To Make A Quilt "Beard Guard"?

"romanyroamer" wrote in message
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Hi,
I have seen antique quilts "mended" with muslin or nearly sheer
material. It
stabalizes the quiilt and still allowes the original to be seen....
sorry
don't seem to have explained to well. It's late in Australia and I'm
more
than ready for bed!....Amelia


Which is exactly what one did, well really just basted sheer netting
along the worse of the damaged areas making a "sandwich". Will hold
until can get the time to really decide and do what must be done.

In principle the technique of mending a quilt with a sheer material is
simple. One uses either silk organza, crepeline or stabletex (sp?), and
simply patches over the damaged areas using a running stitch. As you
stated this stabilises frays,tears and other small damage and is almost
an invisible repair. The beauty of sheer netting type fabrics is they do
not require pre-shrinking, nor do they unravel at the edges. Some quilt
repair professionals will actually cover the entire top of a damaged
quilt with a sheer fabric if required.

Thanks for the suggestions, great minds think alike! *LOL*

Candide