I'm sorry this happened. It would make me sick, too. I repaired a couple of old quilts for someone about 20 years ago, not having a clue what I was doing. I found some material (some of it ended up being from diapers!) that matched fairly well, and I more or less appliqued it over the worn and torn spots. No one could tell where it was patched. The batting was mostly in place with those, however. Good luck, and I hope you'll post pictures and a tutorial on what you did to fix it. It would help so many others of us here!