dhanke

I have taken on this repair project, it's an old quilt that belongs to my dear DIL, it was in her grandfathers childhood home. The binding and borders are in tatters, but I'm just going to trim them up as well as I can and rebind. My problem is the blocks, they are dahlia type with stuffing in some portions and as you can see in the pic, the fabric is badly worn on many of them. DIL doesn't expect a restoration, only a repair to keep it from getting worse. My only thought was to handstitch fine netting over the worn areas to contain the batting/stuffing. I don't intend to replace any of the fabrics, just maintain the status quo. Does anyone else have any other suggestions?