You are a GREAT MIL. I hope you are appreciated.

It is always interesting to see how someone else does a repair job. I would have laid a piece of tracing paper under the hole and then used a pencil to outline the hole on the paper, cut out the paper (keeping those scissors far away from the quilt) and use the paper as a template for cutting the batting. Would have also used the paper template to outline the fabric patch for the back, adding an additional half inch or so to the border of the fabric patch. After hand-stitching the fabric patch on the back of the quilt like a piece of applique, I probably would have used a lightweight fusible material to attach the batting in the patched hole. Only then would I hand stitch an applique flower or some other decorative shape to cover the hole on the front of the quilt.

@BeckyGoldsmith

11 ай бұрын

Excellent suggestions! That would be a good and methodical way to go about the job. I personally would not use fusible, but that's me. Thank you for commenting :-).

I ‘m thankful when you started and I’m look forward to the 2nd Part🌸😂

I followed you examples and instructions on a 10 yo baby quilt that I made for the baby boy. He is very happy with the results!

@BeckyGoldsmith

Жыл бұрын

It is so nice to be able to save a loved, but damaged, quilt. Congrats!

"Were just gonna go in" it hurt your soul to do the surgery part. I felt it too my grandma made me a quilt when I was little and it lived on my bed for 15plus years until the patches started coming apart which is why I came across your video. Its lived in my chest for 4 years and I always cry a little when I change out our beds because it's right there on top. I gotta fix it I miss her so much I need the quilt back to useable fashion

@BeckyGoldsmith

2 жыл бұрын

I encourage you to pull the quilt out, find some fabric that makes you smile, and sew it in place where needed. Embrace the stitches you use and the fact that you are making your grandmother’s quilt usable again. Don’t worry about perfection. Sew with love as best as you can.

❤

Would it work to lay the quilt on a piece of paper larger and draw the hole on to it and use that as a pattern for the back piece and the batting?

@BeckyGoldsmith

3 жыл бұрын

That could work, especially with the batting.

literally came to this video to figure out how to repair a hole my *cat* tore out of my quilt (my dog is blameless in this affair)

@BeckyGoldsmith

2 жыл бұрын

Serendipity in action :-).

Why not just make the opening round or square instead of such an odd shape? I think it would look nicer instead of an odd-shape patch.

@BeckyGoldsmith

3 жыл бұрын

I could have but the simplest reason is because I didn't want to. I didn't want to hide it, I wanted it to stick out because the hole in that shape left by the puppy is now part of the story of the quilt. If it was just any old antique quilt with no backstory I might have chosen differently. But the beauty of this sort of mending is that we get to make those choices... no rule apply :-).

Thats why dogs need to be outside.. I never have animals in my house to destroy my quilts..