I am with you, I would be inclined to take it apart and start over with the quilting. Since I am rather sensitive to smells (my husband swears I could put bears to shame with my sense of smell) I would try to clean it. Is it machine pieced or hand pieced? If it is machine pieced maybe if you baste it together, wash it on a delicate cycle or just soak in in a bathtub then let it flat dry or dry on delicate in a dryer. (My dryer has a delicate and even an air dry cycle. It also has a thing to put in the dryer that can put things on that you don't want to tumble.) You will have to iron it - but then I always iron my quilt tops before I make them into a sandwich anyway.
Last edited by quiltingcandy; 04-15-2014 at 05:25 PM.