Love the idea about printing off the story about how the damage happened onto photo-fabric and applique it to the quilt. I've got a quilt made by DH's grandmother in Alabama, bow-tie pattern, with muslin and feed-sacks. Hand pieced, hand quilted with the Baptist Fan design. The neatest part is the batting, I learned years later after the damage, later on that--that Grandma would go out to the cotton fields after the pickers had finished and would gather the leftover cotton bolls, card them then make her own batting for her quilts. About the damage: One really old winter day, when my oldest son was 10 or so, he took Grandma's quilt to bed with him, unbeknownst to me, he also took (snuck) an electric space heater to his room. You guessed it, a corner of the quilt caught fire, burned through some of the top, exposed the cotton batting. My story is a mixed, sad/glad one. Sad because the quilt is damaged, glad because of history and learning about Grandma's ingenuity and creativity.