Help with vintage quilt
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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!!!
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Pulling the back to the front for binding is harder then you think. You can get tunneling of the fabric which makes it difficult to get a nice sewn edge. It looks like the sewing was not done very well and it let the edge of the fabric fray out. You can either undo the sewing and see if there is enough binding fabric to come over and enclose the frayed edge or patch the edge first or put on new binding. Quilt seems to be in good shape otherwise and redoing the edge should make it last a while longer.
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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.
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