Originally Posted by
DeneK
I am working on repair of a quilt I made for my DIL a number of years ago. First, taking apart a quilt you made a long time ago is certainly instructive... Second, I will never do this again. I just cant make myself work on it for more than a couple of days at the time and then it sits for sometimes months. My work was, lets say, "less than perfect" and every block needed something fixed and it is a huge oversized king. I wanted to just make her a new one, but she insisted she wanted this one fixed.
It may be that she thought she was "making it easier" for you to fix the old one than making a new one.
Little do they know!!!
On the brighter side - your DIL likes it enough to want it fixed and it was used enough to need to be repaired. I would take that as a compliment. :-}