Help needed with vintage quilt top
My 89 yo mother gave me a top that she hand pieced before she got married 55 years ago. It is with real 1930's fabrics and real feed sacks. I need to repair a couple of seams that are coming loose and the fabric is fraying horribly. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could finish this to keep it intact? I've thought about fusible batting in hopes that that would keep it from fraying more, but this is a 70ish x 80ish quilt and I've read comments that fusible doesn't work well on larger projects. I've thought about interfacing on the back for the same reasons, then using a batting. I've thought about just a regular batting and quilting it using a very narrow zigzag over the seams (kinda like stitch in the ditch but zigzaging over the seam to secure it). Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks for your help
Suzy