Quilt repair 4

This part was badly damaged, the fabric was coming apart, the bating was missing, and there was a huge rip on the back:

BAck:


I sewed up the back first, removed the entire square of damaged fabric, and replaced the batting using batting from th edge That I had cut off.




I used feedsack fabric to make a new square and hand sewed it in:

Quilt repair 3

Now this one was tricky..


I only had to remove 1 inch from this side as well.
I had to cut out a bit of the damaged part, and replace some batting





Here again I used a patch of feedsack fabric salvaged from another quilt, Sewed the patch by hand, and then refolded the binding and re-sewed it.

Quilt repair 2

Another area of the quilt:


Still working on the edges, I cut off just a inch off this edge to allow for rebinding

Fix:


more of the rebound edges

Quilt repair 1

Repairing an old quilt is a painstaking progress..
A friend of mine asked me to do a few fix ups on her grandmother's quilt.

Here's one part of the damage:



And the fix:

The fabric had just disintegrated here, so I had to patch over it. Since the batting here was gone, I used a little batting from a part of the edge I cut off and padded it before adding the patch. I used a piece of feedsack material salvaged from another old quilt to handsew a patch.

Next problem:


Fix:


I removed the fabric at the tear on that edge, about 3 inches, to allow enough room to cut off the damged portion of binding and rebind the edge. The back of the quilt was a lovely blue polka dot fabric and the quilter had folded over the edge of the backing to bind it..I wanted to keep it true tp the original , so I did it the same way.