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I was really pleasantly surprised with how well the repair of Dan’s quilt went. Most of the quilting went smoothly and easily with just a bit of puckering at the edges. I think next time I would pull everything tight and then trip the edges and put on a binding. I used meander quilting and made sure to cross all the seams as often as possible since those are the weakest area of the quilt. I’ll definitely do this same process on my old blue and white quilt to rescue it as well. That one has only  a few small tears.

Before I learned to quilt my quilts, I tied them. While it’s a nice idea, it doesn’t make for a very long lasting quilt. I made this cheery quilt for Daniel about 9 years ago and it’s coming all apart. I’ve made him other quilted quilts since then but he really wanted this one repaired. I decided to give it a go. There’s already a longish tear along one edge of the quilt so I took out all the remaining ties and then pulled the old batting out. I turned the quilt inside out and sewed up as many of the surface tears as I could, most were along original seam lines. Then I cut some batting to size and turned the quilt right side. It won’t be nice and smooth like making a new quilt but I think I can do some stipple quilting that’ll give it a second chance on life. If it turns out well then I’ll do the same with a blue quilt I made for my bed the same year.

Just a few more! My block savers are full now so next it’ll be time to sew.

The borders took a little longer. The pattern photo shows 6 blue background colors but it’s written for only 1 so it took a bit of figuring out. I have 4 background colors. I used a multicolor binding the first time around but this time I’m planning to use a mix of the same blues I used for background. I took a trip out to the quilt shop and bought a large flowery batik backing in turquoise shades. Now, I have to think about how I want to quilt it.