pamkasperi

Howdy QB...I have once again been without internet and felt the withdrawals happening...first thing I did was log on here.

So about 2 weeks ago I posted pictures of my very first quilt I made - which isn't really a quilt but 10 years ago its what I thought was a quilt. See the first 2 pictures.

So yesterday I started taking it apart. OH MY GOSH. What was I doing. See the next set of pictures of the wonderful inside - I'm not kidding you there where places where the squares didn't match so I just folded the material over and sewed the seam.

So my big dilema - resisting the urge to completely rip this thing apart and start all over and do it right.

Boom - internet goes out as I am posting on here for idea's and thoughts. Can't post.

So DD comes home from school and I discuss this new project with her.

We agree for me to fix the holes....some I did with the serger - added fusible webbing at the seams and then serged because the material was so worn out (mind you this quilt/blanket has been washed at least once a week from 2001 till 2009).

Then we agreed to take the remaining patches and add to the quilt - so each side got about 8 inches to it - see pictures.

I have to add to the back to fit to the front.

I am allowed to add batting and quilt. I am not allowed to re-do the existing portion or take any of the existing quilt apart.

I had a lot of the same fabrics and explained the color and wear differences and she was fine with that but she said that if I deconstructed the original quilt - then it wasn't her my first quilt and it wasn't her first quilt.

How have the rest of you handled "reconstruction" of old quilts?

So here it is so far....I have to add my 16 inches to the back; sandwich and then quilt. If the internet quits going out and life slows down I'm hoping to finish this weekend.

Thoughts????

cathyvv

Seems like it has been well loved and love is what makes a quilt great.

pamkasperi

very well loved - the material is worn; stained and discolored...looks odd next to the new fabric....but it was all she would let me do and she is fine with it - so I guess that is all that matters!

TonnieLoree

You've come a long way baby! (Insert musical notes). I can look back at some of my first ones and wonder "just what was I thinking". My very first one, I did as my mom did and cut one block, picked it up and stacked it on top of 3 or for layers, cut again and continued stacking. The cut blocks kept getting progressively bigger and bigger until it almost looked like a pyramid. Then I couldn't figure out why the seams didn't match up. Duh!

pamkasperi

I think I must have done that in some places on this one!

Leota

Pam,
Once a Girl Scout always a Girl Scout....
Love the memories

pamkasperi

Leota - so true - between my childhood and adult - I'm a 20 year girl scout!

dutchie

It's wonderful and NOW I know what to do with all of the patches from my Girl Scout days. I must have 100 of them carefully stashed away in a trunk.

pamkasperi

I know...I thought it would be too heavy doing it this way but it really isn't.

The white material on the back is actual Girl Scout material. Is the GS all over it. I bought it years ago and for some reason about 8 yards of it. I'm glad I did.

I have a soccer one I am doing for her twin but because its almost all out of t-shirts that one is slow going!

chairjogger

so fun to see an "old friend"... looks like a lot of love .

good luck referbishing your old friend!