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Nice surprises all round and a little tear in the fabric

Kerstie texted to say she will come visit with Binky and Isla tomorrow. How nice.

Last time K was here she made this beautiful driftwood sign.

This is life with two babies under three.

Still we do the best we can with warm milk, bedtime stories and cuddles in soft quilts.

That must help, don’t you think?

It stopped raining this morning and that gave me the chance to air the quilts out on the line.

Here’s the thing with the vintage things around here, especially beautiful soft quilts …they’re well loved.

Today I noticed a little tear in the top layer of fabric of this soft, blue one.

I’m not sure what to do about this. Maybe a bit of vintage fabric? As a patch or as an appliqué flower? I’d have to learn to appliqué but how hard can that be? What do you think?

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  • October 15, 2012
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    A little piece of material and a blanket stitch or you could embroider (love embroidering), if it’s not too big of a hole 🙂 Let us know

  • October 15, 2012
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    Wonderful that you have a line. We can’t have them where I live…in a subdivision. 🙁 I’m nterested in how you will fix the quilt.

  • claudsy

    October 15, 2012
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    You could repair this with a variety of methods, Veronica. You could use an applique patch. If you actaully added more than one on that soft blue fabric, it would look intentional. Vintage fabric is best, according to those who do this type of thing often. Hand embroidery would also help disguise the tear, but again, I think it would help to have a few spots embroidered to offset the patched area. I’m sure others could give you more ideas for this necessary task.

  • October 16, 2012
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    How cute Veronica – I can’t believe you have 3 under 3 – super mum !
    I guess you could darn it or try and find a similar colour patch and replace it.

    Joanne

    http://www.balletpumpsandroses.com

    xx

  • alvaradofrazier

    October 16, 2012
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    I really enjoyed the photos. They helped me feel “autumny,” since it’s over 80 degrees here.
    As for the “patch,” I had a friend who used parts of her son’s old (over 20 yrs) baby clothes for a quilt. Does that qualify as ‘vintage?’

  • October 16, 2012
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    You have beautiful pictures, Veronica. I especially like the “Keep Calm” project – had to “pin” it!

  • elissa field

    October 16, 2012
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    My dog tore a small hole in a beautiful vintage quilt I have that has brown-printed appliques of birds on it. I threatened to have her picture printed in brown onto fabric, and use that to patch the hole… and do the same for anyone else who tore it. 😉

    I love the signs and images! Enjoy your autumn!

  • October 16, 2012
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    With my grandmother’s quilts, I had some of her spare fabric which came in handy. Since it was unraveling..like yours seems to be doing..I stabilized it with Stitch Witchery(a fusible interfacing), ironing it to set and then ran a decorative hand stitch around the folded under edges of the patch. Quilts have so many stories in them.

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