Need advice on fix
 

I am hoping to get some advice on the best way to fix this. I was so upset to find it, but happy to have caught it before I gave the quilt away. I am thinking I need to rip the binding out, then resew it. Any other ideas? Any thing I need to be aware of? I'll take any advice I can get.

Thanks!

I would open up binding to fix it. If you have any extra fabric, maybe sew a piece on top to hide in the binding but to give you something to grab without fraying. You may also want to use fray check for the raveling but test first as some times it bleeds. Good luck!

I have had this happen too!! Carefully take out the binding. I would strengthen the unraveling fabric with a little lightweight fusible interfacing then try your best to restitch it. GOOD LUCK and be patient, take your time.

The best advice I have for you is to also unpick it on both sides of the frayed part so you can sew it again where it is frayed. You will be happier with it if you re-sew it.

Thank you for your ideas and support. Fray check! Good idea, I didn't think of that.

It looks like you have some applique on this quilt? Any chance you could work a bit of applique so that it covers the frayed area? Another idea would be to make this an opportunity to design a neat tag with some custom embroidery or layered ribbon in coordinating colors to the quilt -- store bought items have tags in prominent places, so yours can too. Make it look like you meant it. Those would be my first ideas for a fix.

I hate ripping bindings off, specially after a quilt has been washed. I think the risk of it not looking not quite right after re-binding is fairly high, so if neither of the suggestions above works, I would probably carefully pull the quilt top material to toward the binding, possibly use fusible web to hold it, and then gently turn under the frayed area and take tiny stitches to almost invisibly tuck it under neatly. If I was still worried about fraying, I would use matching thread and do some interesting embroidery, like an area of cross stitche or blanket stitch.

Yes, it has already been washed and I wondered about the success of taking the binding off. I have never done that....1st time for everything, right? I did think about the applique, but since the appliqued flowers are in rows rather than random, I didn't think it would look right. But I might go that route. Thanks all!!!!

I just fixed one like that. I'd not caught the raw edge when sewing the binding down. I ripped out a section, pinned and re-sewed.

Especially if this to be gifted....you don't want to just "cover" your mistake....you want to fix it the right way....JMHO

I've done what RST suggested using FreyChek.

could you throw a few bumble bees around as accents and use one to cover the booboo?

Or you could always do a wider binding and just go over the binding you already have. I would be worried about the fabric, both where the "oops" is and elsewhere, fraying and falling apart. With the way that fabric seems to be fraying, I would probably make a 3.5" binding and go over the binding you already have on there.

I have had this happen several times. I rip out the stitches, trim the quilt and resew. I know it is a lot of work but well worth it in the end.

I applique a butterfly there --it would look like it was flying to the flowers. It would be much easier to fix that way.

Have you thought about putting the quilt label over this space? I would still 'secure' the fray area with an iron on interfacing to make sure it doesn't continue to fray.

Even if you try the other suggestions of removing the binding, using fray check or interfacing...if it doesn't look good, you could apply the label over the area with the bottom of the label right on the binding, therefore concealing (and protecting) the fray area entirely.

Good luck...let us know how you handled it.

Nan