Brian Christiansen
2016-10-14 01:29:42 UTC
Some months ago, I made a post about repairing a quilt that my
grandmother had made when I was really little (I think when I was born).
I took a look at it, and it requires a bit more work than I originally
thought, but I decided to repair it any way.
In fact, at one point I considered buying the appropriate fabrics and
just entirely making a new quilt in the same pattern, it is a very
simple pattern, which I will describe in the following paragraphs, that
is within even my skills, but I decided to repair the quilt.
The quilt consists is a 7x8 arrangement of ~8" blocks (I will measure to
be absolutely certain of the size) with a simple white backing.
The blocks aren't anything fancy like a courthouse steps, a
whatever-state-star, or something other pieced block, they are merely
gingham prints in the colors yellow, purple, brown or pink, with a few
solid white interspersed amongst the gingham prints.
As far as I can tell the batting is just a piece of slightly heavier
material, it is not regular quilt batting, or even white fleece, which I
suppose could be used as "ultra-thin" batting.
The quilting isn't freehand or even "in the ditch", but rather is 3
squares, with the sides of the largest being about 1" in from the
outside of the block, another being another inch in, and the smallest
square being another inch in.
I guess my grandmother had more of the purple, yellow, and white than
the pink and brown because most of the quilt is those 3 colors and there
are only 3 each of the pink and brown.
I need to replace the purple and yellow squares in the quilt.
On further examination of the quilt, I decided that I also needed to
replace the backing and binding as well, and that is why I pondered
making an entirely new quilt or just forgetting it.
I also pondered putting "real" batting in it, but decided not to do that.
I am also pondering putting a label on it that says something like:
"Originally made by Ruth Sherwood, 1961, repaired by Brian Christiansen,
2016."
I will try to take pictures of the various stages in repairing the quilt
and perhaps put up a "pictoral history" of the repair process on my
flickr account.
grandmother had made when I was really little (I think when I was born).
I took a look at it, and it requires a bit more work than I originally
thought, but I decided to repair it any way.
In fact, at one point I considered buying the appropriate fabrics and
just entirely making a new quilt in the same pattern, it is a very
simple pattern, which I will describe in the following paragraphs, that
is within even my skills, but I decided to repair the quilt.
The quilt consists is a 7x8 arrangement of ~8" blocks (I will measure to
be absolutely certain of the size) with a simple white backing.
The blocks aren't anything fancy like a courthouse steps, a
whatever-state-star, or something other pieced block, they are merely
gingham prints in the colors yellow, purple, brown or pink, with a few
solid white interspersed amongst the gingham prints.
As far as I can tell the batting is just a piece of slightly heavier
material, it is not regular quilt batting, or even white fleece, which I
suppose could be used as "ultra-thin" batting.
The quilting isn't freehand or even "in the ditch", but rather is 3
squares, with the sides of the largest being about 1" in from the
outside of the block, another being another inch in, and the smallest
square being another inch in.
I guess my grandmother had more of the purple, yellow, and white than
the pink and brown because most of the quilt is those 3 colors and there
are only 3 each of the pink and brown.
I need to replace the purple and yellow squares in the quilt.
On further examination of the quilt, I decided that I also needed to
replace the backing and binding as well, and that is why I pondered
making an entirely new quilt or just forgetting it.
I also pondered putting "real" batting in it, but decided not to do that.
I am also pondering putting a label on it that says something like:
"Originally made by Ruth Sherwood, 1961, repaired by Brian Christiansen,
2016."
I will try to take pictures of the various stages in repairing the quilt
and perhaps put up a "pictoral history" of the repair process on my
flickr account.
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Brian Christiansen
Brian Christiansen