Restoration - Salvaging - Fixing - Repairing
When - if ever - does a quilt - or any other item, for that matter - if might be your favorite dishrag that your favorite Great Grandma gave to you as a wedding gift 50 years ago that is now in shreds and gray instead of white - is it time to not try to salvage an item that seems to have sentimental value?
No matter if the item was never finished and never passed on by the person that started it -
or that the item had never been "promised" to someone -
Sometimes I think we try to rescue/save/restore items that - if they were ours to begin with - would end up in the UFO pile or be trashed.
I don't know the "correct" answer to the question - I was asking for your answers to the question -
If the item was a blue chambray work shirt -that Grandma had made - for example - that Grandpa wore many days of his life - and is now very worn - elbows are gone - collar is frayed - pocket is torn (maybe it should be sold as a "fashion statement"?) - how much effort would one put into "making it like new"?