vintage quilt blocks, badly warped...what to do
We pulled tons of unfinished quilt tops from our lakehouse about 10 years ago, it had been sitting for about 40 years untouched. The dad had died, and the mother simply locked the doors and never returned. Upon the passing of the last relative, the daughter, we purchased the home and everything in it. Many of the quilt tops are hand stitched, and my family is going to have them professionally finished (or for each of us as a memento as we sold the house after about 10 years). There were also, however, a good amount of quilt blocks that were never assembled.
I sorted them out, and there seems to be 3 separate block patterns (plus a few rogue other patterns). There is enough to make a quilt from each (if I recreate a block or two). The main issue, however, is that since these blocks had been sitting in a box for 60+ years, there has been considerable warping. Some of them are not terribly bad, but a number of them are nothing near square.
My question is, what is the best way to go about squaring these up in order to put them together. Trimming them would ruin the block pattern, at least slightly. My other thought was to add a border to each square to bring them all to the same size and correct any issues. I am a very novice quilter, however, so I thought I would post somewhere that others may have some experience.
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