July’s #9 is DONE!
My project was to take this quilt that I made for my husband back in 2003 and repurpose it. On the left, you see what it looked like after spending most of those years on the back on my husband’s easy chair. While the front was threadbare, the back was fine!
So, I took these steps:
- Cut off the binding.
- Sliced the quilt into four equal pieces.
- Placed two pieces together with the back of the quilt facing outwards, the front facing inwards, with a piece of leftover batting in between.
- ”Requilted” the pads. I did straight diagonal lines one direction, then the other, creating diamonds across the surface to put these new layers together. You can’t really see the “new” quilting that much as it all blends in with the quilt’s original quilting.
- Machine bound the edges. Since these pads were now two quilts plus some batting thick, I used some of my 4.5” strips instead of the 2.5” strips that I usually use for binding.
You can see by the one shoo-fly block that I’d pieced into the back how the quilt looked in its prime. Now, it gets to live on for at least a bit longer as crate pads for the corgis. Fire is the one modeling!
Now to work on my July Optimism blocks!