Kat Sews

You could close those seams with a ladder stitch. Make sure that the new stitching is a quarter inch from the edge. Nobody but you (and us) will ever know you had a little problem.

carolynjo

Also make sure that you use firm material (tightly woven) and not loosely woven too soft fabric that can pull out from the stitching. Your photo looks like you perhaps did not use a 1/4" seam. If you use such fabric again, make your seam deeper. Ditto sewing them down where they have raveled and then use a decorative stitch to make sure they do not come undone again. Could you glue the fabrics down while you attempt to sew them down once more? Good luck and show us what you do so we can learn from you.

rj.neihart

I've had this happen. What I did was gently tuck one side (seam) over and lightly hand stitched down. No one but me knew about it!

#1piecemaker

I have repaired old tops before just using a needle and thread and a blind stitch. You can do it.

GammaLou

Be sure and use fraycheck before stitching so it doesn't keep pulling out! Should be fine either stitching by hand or machine. Happy quilting!!

lillybeck

I had this happen to me once on a very expensive fabric. I was very careful with my seams but this happened anyway.

HillCountryGal

You've received great information here.
Congratulations on your first quilt. And welcome to quiltingboard.

I'd just handstitch where it's coming undone and call it good. Quilting is definately a learning process.

BeckyB

I think both the thicker fancy stitch or hand sew would work great! So sorry about your problems......it could be worse,I know from some of my mistakes. Would love to see a full picture of your quilt, it looks beautiful.

Quilt-Till-U-Wilt

I'd handstitch them. I don't think you'd notice it.

maviskw

I'd use fray-check on the frayed edge, put the fuseable interfacing under the area, and top stitch with a very narrow zig-zag stitch.