You certainly have a beautiful quilt to work with. Good luck with your venture. Thanks for sharing.

I am sure it will become a family treasure!!

a beautiful quilt

A beautiful quilt done in Mom's hand. I would not change it.

You want to have it lay smooth. Take the stitches out and do Mom proud.

You are sooo lucky! What a great gift you've been given. I would take it apart and see if the top can be washed on a super gentle cycle, then quilt it.

I would take the quilting out. You will never be pleased with the puckers. After removing the quilting, put the quilt outside in the fresh air. You may have to do it for several hours, and see if that will make the top so you can work with it. I have done it to a customer's quilt that needed repairs. It cleared the air and I was able to do the repairs. I would try this before washing and/or putting in the dryer. Good luck.

Beautiful quilt.

I would leave the quilting as is only because my Mom did it. But i am a little sentimental that way.

This is really tough. I would patiently take out all the quilting. Being that is a Broken Star, there are a lot of bias strips. The center star doesn't appear to be too far off but the outside diamonds section from the outside circle may be way off. You may want to draw a very accurate template of the size of the diamond and use that as a guide. You may want to try to do what ever it takes to get each diamond unit accurate otherwise the quilt will never lay flat. When I pieced this quilt for the then president of RJR fabric for a wedding present, that is what I did to make sure that each diamond unit was exactly the size of the template before I started put the diamonds together. I do think I have the peach calico with the hearts in case you need any. You may want to replace the darker solid unless you have some extra. I wish you the best of luck. Please feel free to PM me if you have any questions. I used the book Template Free Stars by Jo Parrott.