Originally Posted by
twinkie
This is my thoughts. I would not cut the binding off but do what I did for my DH. I found his baby quilt that was red work done by his great grandmother. When he got his divorce 7 years ago, we found it under the bed in the guest bedroom and the cats were using it as a bed. It was stained and the binding was raveled. I just took the same color material and put a new binding over the old one. That way I saved the actual quilt and gave it a new look (after I got most of the stains out). He was thrilled with the end results.
On one end of the quilt the binding and part of the border is ripped off. I am just going to trim it all the way around and try and re border and bind. Not sure how yet. I will have to play around with it to see what will be the best way to go. I am so happy to have it and yes I am going to put her name etc on it. Thanks everyone for the giving me ideas.