Thanks for all your great ideas and comments. The top fabric pieces were stitched onto a sheet, but not all the seams were 1/4 inch, so many pulled away from the stitching lines. There was enough of the flannel with the blue pattern (which were mainly the ones to pull apart) included in her 3.5 inch borders, that I replaced those I found needed to be redone. The backing and batting were full of holes and ripped apart, also the binding was shredded on all 4 sides and corners, so it was very easy to remove both the backing, batting and also the borders. The quilt was tied with yellow wool, so will be putting them back once I get it quilted. I am now able to add the new batting and backing then quilt the sandwich together. I do not want to take anything away from the quilt, so will do some ruler work on it keeping the lines intact and just make a minimum number of new lines to hold it together nicely.