When my husband's grandma died (33 years ago) I inherited her beginnings of a Maple Leaf quilt. All the blocks were hand sewn, some joined to each other, some single. My first job was to join them together as she had planned, luckily she had a graph paper where she drew her plan.
I sewed them together, by machine, bought some fabric for the border, and felt that it deserved hand quilting. Not being much of a hand quilter, I used the 'big stitch' going around each leaf in a color of perle cotton that matched the leaf's color.
I don't think she would be too disappointed, but glad someone finished it, 30 years later, instead of throwing it away. It will not be used, but passed on, with the story and graph paper to my children