...or to blog about either I guess. In the past week during the time I've worked on the quilt repair, I have completed replacing the missing patches with the vintage fabric. During the process I relocated the eighth missing patch I had seen originally when I first got the quilt, but had not seen during the thorough search and charting of the places needing work. I had enough replacement fabric, so no problem, but it goes to show how careful you need to be in examining for areas needing work. I also came across several more places where seams had come undone.
I have not done any re-quilting yet, but needed a slight change in activity, so I have started to unsew the binding. I think it was commercially made double fold tape and has done a great job in protecting the edge of the quilt. It is really nearly in shreds in places. The person applying the binding used an unusual technique in that on the front of the quilt the binding is top-stitched in place by machine. On the back side it has been tacked down by hand in places. I will also do one line of machine stitching and one of hand stitching, however I will put right sides together when doing the machine stitching and then flip the tape to the back and hand sew it in place. My machine stitching won't show.
I figured out roughly how much binding I will need. The edge is scalloped so I came up with a figure of about 9 yards. The fabric I ordered has arrived and has been washed and dried. It is a blender fabric and the pattern is called "Sponged" like the painting technique that gives you several shades of the same color. Here's a photo of the fabric under the edge of the quilt (with the binding removed.)
As you can see, there are quite a few patches in that same color family in the quilt. I think that it will give the quilt a whole new look.
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