Where To Get A Quilt Repaired

If yous have a quilt needing repair, see my page Well Loved Quilt Repair  before emailing me.

One of the services I offer is quilt repair of what I call well loved quilts.  This quilt was by far the most damaged I take ever been asked to repair.  The lady that brought it said that she had given it to her daughter and son-in-law for a nuptials gift.  Once I had it for a while and was able to closely piece of work with it, I became convinced that the only fashion this kind of damage occurs in just 7 years was from many, many washings with a washing machine and drying in a dryer.  The binding was almost destroyed, with the top layer completely coming autonomously all the way around the quilt, and the muslin backing was wearing sparse.  The vehement along i end is probable due to pulling on that end over and over, eventually tearing the weakened fabrics on the pinnacle and backing, and  shredding the batting layer all across one cease.

This pulling on summit of the weakened material from over-washing likely with harsher detergents resulted in severe damage.

All on one finish, the tears were terrible and went through all the layers.

The binding was disintegrating, with the top textile layer shredded, and but the lesser layer still holding on.  This isn't rick-rack edging similar I thought at kickoff glance.  It is the top layer of bounden which has drawn up from repeated washings after information technology split.

The muslin on the backside was showing signs of stress along the other edges of the quilt, with small tears around the hand quilted hearts.

The only thing to practice hither is to back the almost damaged sections with new muslin, and attempt to stabilize the meridian on the new fabric.  The problem is that the quilt was hand pieced and mitt quilted, so she didn't desire to dorsum the whole quilt.  The owner had paid a quilter in Franklin to practise this work, likely costing hundreds of dollars. I purchased new muslin, and washed information technology to soften information technology, pinning the selvedge ends every bit I showed in A Brilliant Tip.

I ironed the shredded parts of the quilt pinnacle, trying to polish out the fabric and preserve as much of the original as possible.  The behind at the top was a total loss, with most of the backing simply gone.

Ironing from the top side, I could get the edges of the rips to at least close together.

What started out looking like this…

I pressed to this.  Even with my best effort, it was obvious that some of the cloth was but gone on the tiptop side also.

I loaded the washed muslin on the longarm, and floated the quilt on top, smoothing it out as best I could, trying to get the edges every bit close together as possible.

Tulle was place over the top, but immediately I could encounter this wouldn't be plenty.  The damage was just too severe, and tulle isn't strong plenty to hold the edges of the torn areas together.  So I cut some small patches of muslin to place over the top of the near heavily damaged sections. I added tulle over that to cover the muslin edges and the patches that were missing on the greenish rings, and stitched down the edges.

Using the longarm, I stitched some hearts through the tulle and muslin patches, attaching the damaged section securely to the new muslin backing.

I added more than hearts to mimic the hand quilting.  The template I have was a bit too large, so I did these by freehand.

These are also freehand over the tulle in one of the larger patches.

Then the time consuming work began.  Removing the quilt from the frame, the muslin needed to be trimmed to just enough to turn nether on the backside.

So the long edge had to be whipped into identify. The new muslin bankroll simply covered the tiptop 1/4 of the quilt. The owner wanted as much of the original to be kept equally possible, and she didn't desire to re-quilt the entire quilt.

The new muslin backing is turned under on the behind and pinned to hand stitch down.

The mitt piece of work took almost half-dozen hours.  See part 2 – Severely Damaged Quilt Role 2.
You tin can also see other quilt repair techniques on my Well Loved Quilt Repair folio at the top of the blog.

What practise yous think so far?

If you have a quilt needing repair, run into my page Well Loved Quilt Repair at the pinnacle of the blog.

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