A cut/slit in my quilt!
Hello Quilters! As some may remember, this is my second Play Ball quilt. This one was made larger for my great grandson’s bed. I was into my meander quilting, when to my horror I came upon a slit or cut about 1/2 inch. I panicked! I stitched like you do darning back & forth like I could erase it, which in hindsight stuck out like a sore thumb. I continued quilting.
After I had it finished and bound I laid it on my floor. My eye was instantly drawn to the darning spot like a magnet would draw metal. I hated it. So then a thought occurred to me for a better solution.
I cut a small circle with my pinking shears, of the same fabric that was in the damaged square. I hand sewed a gathering stitch about 1/4 inch away from the outer edge. I cut a cardboard to go inside the gather and drew my stitches up around the cardboard circle, like you would a YoYo. I pressed with starch as flat as I could, then removed my cardboard.
I then took tiny hand stitches to apply it over the hole only AFTER removing all the darning stitches. I didn’t want to leave them bc they also showed on the backing. I took it then to my longarm and connected the meandering quilting stitches , stitching over the circle patch.
This was the best solution I could think to do. If you’re had a similar experience, please share. If not, I hope this might help someone that may find their self in a similar dilemma. I am more pleased now than with the panicked darning.
The square is the neon green above the basketball. The last 2 pictures are the hole before the fix and the whole quilt with darning.