This wonderful friend of mine just passed away recently. She was 95 and had lived a very full life with lots of travels across the world. Throughout much of the 1980's she lived in Panama with her husband while her husband tended the animals as a veterinarian on the military base in the Panama Canal area. During this time, she collected tons of "molas" or "molitas." Molas are made by reverse applique, with some more complex molas having 7 or more different fabrics layered on there.
Additionally, there were some rectangles of "crazy quilting" I believe. Those will make a quilt of their own.
Anyway, I wanted to share with you guys and get your opinions on how to clean them and prepare them for one big quilt. They're quite wrinkly and kind of have an "old house" smell. Not musty or moldy, but just old house that hasn't been tended in a bit. She lived in a retirement home and hadn't spent the last few years in her house.
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She made that last one herself while she was there.
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Crazy quilting?