All Fixed

It took me a couple of weeks, but I have finally finished repairing one of the Dog Walker's quilts.

 If you remember, nearly the whole inner square and one of the triangles were totally shredded. He was planning to get rid of it when I rescued it from the garbage bag.

So the first thing I had to do (after giving the Dog Walker a scolding) was to remove all the torn and shredded fabric as well as the yarn holding them in place. Even the batting beneath had to be repaired.

Then I chose new blocks from my stash of fabric. I serged all I could, but that wasn't possible for some. They had to be done by hand.

I also had to sew the serged blocks in by hand. Thankfully, they were much bigger. One of them was 35 blocks and the other was nine.

When I finally had all the new blocks in place, I had to retie all the missing knots.

Then when all the new blocks were finally finished, I had to check the entire quilt for bad ties and other rips in the fabric. That was much harder than it sounds. I had limited matching yarn, so I couldn't replace the knots, I had to retie them.

Even though it took me many hours, I'm so glad this quilt looks like new. Many of the blocks were originally pieced by my grandma and that legacy is definitely worth saving.