hi everyone. Thank you Heather for hosting VQW. As always, look forward to seeing what everyone is working on. I've been commissioned to restore this quilt. I have permission from the owner to disassemble, repair, and put it back together. I also have permission to use new fabric to repair the shredded pieces. I have it disassembled, I am using civil war replica fabric to fill in the shredded pieces. I finished piecing those in this morning. This afternoon I am interfacing each block in prep to applique my repair pi ces, and then to quilt each block before I start the reassembly of the quilt. I have a timeline of spring before the owner wants it back.
This quilt is over 150 years old. It is clothing pieces that the woman hand sewed into the scrappy blocks. Each block is backed.The backing is linen. I'm pretty sure the batting is horse hair.