When Jordan's grandma passed away, she was gifted the quilt her grandma made and they had snuggled under at her house. The quilt was well loved and had small tears in old fabric as well as places the seams were separating. She asked me to repair it, originally wanting to patch over the worn fabric and make it useable again. After some thought, she decided she would rather it be preserved the way grandma had made it.
You see in the pictures above and below the types of repairs needed. Holes like the one above was pretty easy with a little hand stitching to fix the separation.
Worn fabric like the one above, took me more time to research the best way to preserve it. I was fortunate that my quilt guild had a guest speaker from the St. Louis Art Museum come to speak to us about textiles and how the museum cares for them. I was able to speak with her and she told me what she would do and how. I followed her directions.
Taking tulle, I cut a piece larger than the area to preserve.
I, then, carefully stitched it down.
After it was all stitched, I trimmed the tulle to slightly larger than the stitched area.
The same kind of thing for the binding. I covered the binding with tulle to prevent further fraying.
Some after photos.
And it is done and ready to return home, where it will be lovingly and carefully displayed.
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