It was a big push to finish before I start Teacher Work Days. Once school starts intense projects are much harder.
This quilt was made for JoAnne by her mother Florence about 1976. You can tell that Florence was resourceful. She used the fabric she had.
Every block needed some repair, and that was how I approached it: One block at a time. You can read more about some specific repair techniques HERE and HERE.
Since the one-block-at-a-time system seemed to be working so well, I quilted it the same way–A meander-stipple around the birds in each block. My freehand quilting is not great, but it disappears into most of the fabrics and, hopefully, no one will look at the back too much.
Speaking of the back, it is a white piece of wide-back flannel (prewashed) that I hope will mimic the feel of the fleece when it was new and stabilize the overall structure of the quilt.
The wide binding was not in good shape, but couldn’t be removed without danger, so I put a narrower binding over it. The wavy nature of the quilt made it hard to achieve a uniform look, but I hope the original binding peeking out preserves both the quilt and the memories.
So, it is complete and should be back to its owner within a week.
Here are before-during-after shots. What an interesting experience this has been.
Wedding Dress Blue 
If that were mine, I’d be thrilled – what a good job done there.
You did a good job on a difficult project.
You did a great job restoring the quilt!
Your little quilt looks new again. And ready for more love
Well done – that was a lot of work, but it looks very nice now!
It looks great and will bring her many more years of pleasure to have it.
What a beautiful job you did. She’s going to treasure this for years to come.
Congrats on getting this done. You did a beautiful job and were so careful in trying to restore it and keep it as it was originally. I’m sure she will be thrilled with it!
What an undertaking, and you did such a great job on it!