My son asked me to repair his 9 year old quilt. When I looked at it, the binding was fraying, the cotton thread I used to quilt it was breaking all over, and the fabric had little tears all over the backing fabric. I am making him a new quilt. We will make a cat bed with the old quilt.
I learned some lessons from this quilt. #1, I haven't been using cotton thread for machine quilting for a long time, and I think that was a good decision. #2, The backing fabric was a very "crisp" fabric. I will try to avoid that "crisp" feeling fabric in the future.