Originally Posted by
wildyard
Very interesting outcome today. After seeing the quilt, it was not in good shape as I expected. About 20% was damaged by wear. I pleaded inability to make a proper judgement and she decided to keep it. She gifted me one quilt with one area of damage, one flimsy with 2 missing blocks and a set of very old blocks in muslin and blue, tree of life, 11 blocks and 4 in the same colors that are signature blocks. There is a lot of flocking on the muslin, so I'll be trying to get them cleaned up.
She didn't bring any blocks for me to sew and give back. Not sure what happened to that but I didn't ask.
I recently finished some estate sale vintage blocks into a quilt--I used Restoration on the flimsy after I got the blocks together and did a seam around the outside--didn't want to mess with machine quilting it if it wasn't going to clean up. Due to uniqueness of some of the fabric used (salvaged from shirts)I saved one block for the label and did not clean up with Restoration. Restoration worked VERY well in cleaning up white and colors--I had no idea whether it would bleed dye or not--but it did not. Try it on the older stuff.