Help with vintage quilt
 

I have a wonderful post lady who has given me several of her mothers quilts and tops over the years and she recently gave me 3 more today. She did the self binding method of back to front and a piece was either missed or???? Either way I would love to correct it so I can wash it and use it. The top itself is all hand stitched and the binding is sewn by machine. Should I undo all the binding and do a complete different binding? Undo it and straighten it up and fix it?? Everything else is perfect on the quilt, what say the experts that are QB!!!

I would take out the machine stitching and finish it by hand. The quilt is lovely and the binding stitching detracts from it. What do your quilt inspectors say??

I would also take it off and use an off white to bind it. It is really pretty.

I would also remove the 'comb over' and replace it with a traditional binding.

Lovely top but the binding does detract so I too would remove all the machine stitching, neaten up the edges and put on another binding in a cream colour perhaps.

I really love that yellow color. If you can't get a good finish with the self-binding method, perhaps you can see if you can match that fabric for a traditional binding.

I agree with the others. Remove the binding and replace with a traditional binding. The quilt is beautiful. I also like the yellow color for binding.

Thank you everyone for your advice!! I too love the yellow binding and I will see if I can find anything that will work for a traditional binding. I just love when these treasures come my way.

I would also do it in sections taking out the machine stitching and do it by hand. It will look a like nicer. Seems that the quilt police like the quilt too.