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Quilt disaster :(
Several years ago my mom suffered a series of strokes which left her with weakened hand strength. A few months ago, my mom lovingly made a baby quilt for my DD. It would not have won any awards or been featured on a blog as many of the seams did not line up and the stitching was loose in places, but she put her heart and soul into making it. I love it!
DD spit up on it so I threw it in the washer without thinking and it is ruined. The binding came out, the quilt squares unraveled in places and the batting is exposed.
I don't have the heart to tell mom that her gift is destroyed. So it looks like I'll be trying to save this heirloom.
Sad day in my house.
/end vent
Re: Quilt disaster :(
oh, I'm so sorry, about your mom and about the quilt accident.
It was just that though, an accident, and I believe it is fixable from what you said. May need some special TLC, but I bet you can save it. If you can get some fusible interfacing, or get some coordinating fabric and use steam a seam under the unraveled squares and iron the unraveling fabric into place, you can definitely patch while maintaining most of the integrity of the original design. Re-binding is no big deal, you can totally do it, or find someone else who can if quilting isn't your thing.
The Red Pepper Quilts machine binding tutorial is how I taught myself and people are always commenting on how strong the edging is on my quilts, so if you want to DIY, I'd start there.
Stand up for something you believe in.
I'm sure it's salvageable. If quilting isn't your thing, post pictures and the ladies here can tell you what needs to be fixed and how to go about it.
I'm sorry that it happened, though!
Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
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