Would you remake this?
I made this quilt 39 years ago, when I was pregnant with our first child and decided "never again"! Well, I am quilting again but now I know better about the correct way to make a quilt.
This one is showing it's age, and my quilting technique could definitely be improved. Here are the problems:
The waxed hand quilting thread is disintegrating in spots.
I didn't know to bury the knots, so the muslin/sheeting back isn't pretty.
The batting has bearded to the point that it feels like there is little left in spots.
It was made from skillet cloth/ kettlecloth/ weavers cloth which was quite popular in the 70s and nearly all was leftover from clothing I had made for myself. So it is a cotton/poly blend.
There is some red bleeding into the white, but not too bad.
I used Wrights bias tape for the binding and it is coming off in lots of places.
So my question is - would you take out the quilting and redo with new batting and quilting? Or just fix the places where the thread is coming out?
I love to look at those old fabrics and remember what outfits I used that fabric in... but I probably would not "use" the quilt as it fits a full size bed and we don't own one anymore.
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