Originally Posted by quiltingcandy

Many years ago - I am fairly sure it was about 25 years ago - I made patchwork Christmas quilts for my daughters. I used ties and they are still doing okay. But my eldest DD was concerned because she could tell the batting inside wasn't holding up and asked me to take hers apart and put in new batting.

It is not like I don't have quite a few unfinished projects in the closet, but why not? Sure, I will do it. So today I was able to cut the ties, un-sew the edges and pull off the old batting. It was pretty bad - but I attribute that to being tied and not the best quality of batting (but I didn't know then what I know now about batting). I put the front and back pieces in the washer on delicate and very impressed on how they came out. But I ran out of starch so decided to stop until I get more. This time I plan to do shadow quilting instead of ties.

It just makes me laugh though, here I am making work out of an old project rather than finish one sitting in the closet waiting.