Examples of what I was working with.
Lots of rust stains and tears in the white fabric.
Smaller squares pulled apart and fraying, many with rips in the fabric.
First step was to sew down the 38 squares I’d cut to cover the white.
I counted around 50 small squares that needed tears mended and to be resewn together. I also sewed seams around the edges of the quilt to stop any more fraying on the border, and mended a lot of tears on the border and on the quilt back.
Finished repairs last night!
Ironed it this morning and put it back on the sofa. Hopefully, the dogs are old enough now that they’ll use it for sleeping and not in games of destruction. No one’s on the sofa now because they’re too keyed up after a couple of hours of plumbers in the backyard.
This chewed up spool that’s in one of my thread boxes is from my dog Hamlet, who was with me from 1978 to 1985. I won’t be the one who throws it away.
And we all stopped crying when there were no more tears.
Ugh. Yes, I wrote that, but it’s not my fault English has two dictionaries that mashed up several other languages into one full of ‘e’s only to have two words still spelled the same but sound differently, right phonics?
Well done repairing the tears, stains and all! It looks as good as new.
Thanks! It kept me busy and occupied because I’m operating in high stress mode these days. Just part of the times we live in, I think.