Boy-Oh-Boy I Sure Need Suggestions ~
I'm needing suggestions ~ a tranquilizer ~ I don't drink, but I'm willing to start after seeing the quilt. Please be gentle with me, I'm pretty fragile over this, right now :0) Hugs and kisses will be welcomed....
I made a long overdue quilt for my brother honoring his service during the Vietnam era. Given to him last summer. He called and said that the quilt was starting to tear....it had never been washed.... I rec'd the quilt yesterday in the mail.
The backing is all the same fabric, the front has none of this fabric.... and as you can see by the picture it's rotten fabric.
The fabric was from an exchange/swap (Not Quilting Board) of patriotic fabrics last Spring for quilts of valor, one of the rules it had to have a name on the selvage and something to effect it needed to be a 'known' fabric yada, yada, yada....
It had a nice 'hand', it wasn't thin or loosely woven to my eye, you couldn't read a newspaper through it... but obviously was old or whatever....It is a well known fabric name (which I don't want to slam on a public arena) I think it's matter of the age of the fabric, or how it was stored before I rec'd it. If I had for one minute thought it to be not 'good' fabric I would have never used it.
Enough background...It's a lap size (Although it's extra long as he's 6'8") with an easier pattern on the front (French Braid). It was sent out to be LA quilted, I don't DM quilt.
What to do? The mental gymnastics I've gone through at this point....I'm thinking the best thing to do is call it a lesson and start with a replacement quilt.
Please also understand, I'm not saying that fabric swaps are bad, I've participated in many but this one has bit me in the patootie. [ATTACH=CONFIG]467285[/ATTACH]