Originally Posted by Riley
If I might stick my 3 cents worth in here, please?
If you use "today's" fabric to repair them then they will be dated as of today. It makes no matter how old they are, the quilts are always dated with the last fabric used on them.
So, if the age of the quilts & fabric are important to you, then you
would need to find vintage fabric of the same age to repair them with. Other wise , they loose any antiquity they have. Just so you know!
They are indeed beauties!
Thank you very much for putting in your 3 cents! How these quilts will be dated is somewhat important to me so I will stay away from using any current day fabrics in the repairs. That is the kind of info I love learning here! I like the idea of another poster to cut off some of the larger blue border area and salvage that fabric for new binding. I'm gonna sit on this for awhile though. I can't do any harm by waiting and thinking it out fully. :)