Amazing how much we quilters tolerate to 'save' a quilt, and it's usually for someone else. A couple years ago, a gal asked me to FIX a baby quilt that her daughter's grandmother made for her and wanted to use it for her new daughter. When she washed it, most of the ties were gone and the batting bunched up. I took it apart, laid it out with new batting; brought forward the backing that she had used for the binding and pretty well matched up the holes from the old ties and retied it. Also restitched some of of the Care Bear blocks seams. That wasn't nearly as bad as the three hours it took to rip out the grandmother's very small machine stitches she used on the 'binding'. Whew! I invested almost $10. for the batting and she sent me $30. ($20. for my labor, not realizing what we quilters go through). Never again will I accept to FIX someone elses quilt. Thanks for sharing your thread.