Originally Posted by kittycats
I have been asked to repair a quilt if it is repairable. Well, I took a look at it and omg. The front is not made with cotton fabric, it looks like mabey it was duck cloth or something like it, mabey even drapery fabric. The back is totally shredded and the batting is comming off. Not to mention that it was hand tied. Anyway, I personally don't think that it would be fixable without undoing the pieces of binding, replacing all the batting and backing. I told this person that it would be very expensive to redo. He is going to tell his wife and if she says go ahead, He will bring it back to me. I gave Him a price of 300 to 400 dollars! Now what do I do? Got a feeling that He will have me do it. I was trying to discourage him. Material wise won't be that much, but time wise omg. Any sugestions? Seems that over pricing (mabey) did not have an effect on him.
If he does come back, take good photos, because it will be much faster to take the whole quilt apart and make a new one, replacing the torn pieces, or re-piecing them,
When you do take it apart, use a designing wall to keep all the pieces in their original position, filling in the spaces, with similar-to-what-was-there heavy duck fabric. Make the new top, add new batting and backing and tie it.
You can still say no, or offer a new quilt, explaining in much detail why!