Friday, October 16, 2015

Super Nana to the rescue!


The story of the quilt that was “loved to death”. This is the quilt that my son took to college in 1999. Both my children are hopelessly sentimental (hmm, wonder where they got that trait?). When my grandson took possession of the quilt it was washed and loved to the point of no return (as you can clearly see in this picture). My son would not give it up, so one day my daughter in law whisked it out the door into my car. I was determined to use something from the original to carry on to the next quilt (sort of like a plant cutting or sourdough starter that carries on into infinity).

The back must have been a poly blend because it was still intact.


As you can see there wasn’t much to work with. I had to fuse eight pieces together to have enough integrity to make this one 4 patch!




I made it as close to the original as I could except I added some robots and cowboys, on the back since this one is for my grandson. I rarely tie quilts these days, but the original was tied and my grandson likes to fiddle with the ties so it seemed fitting to keep that the same too. It is lightweight and draggable! I rarely use poly batting, but did in this case since I knew it would be washed a lot!



I will be giving it to him on his birthday and can’t wait to see the expression on my son’s face, since I am sure he has already chastised his wife for disposing of it.


Oh happy day!

14 comments:

  1. Oh my....! I can't believe what I see on the picture !! Poor quilt ! Did he make war ???
    You realized a wonderful job Wendy !! Brave Mom !!

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  2. I think its great that the quilt will live again! You did a wonderful job.

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  3. Awesome! What a fun surprise!!

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  4. Poor thing had been loved almost to death. You did a great recovery job

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  5. Very sweet to bring this one back to life.:)

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  6. super nana indeed! and the love lives on in the quilt....

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  7. Wonderful job, Wendy! When did you find the time to do this? Looks like the squares are wool plaid? Recently saw another friend's son's quilt being returned for fixing in the same deplorable condition! Using part of the old quilt makes it all good!!

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  8. Hooray for you and your daughter-in-law! I don't know whether the quilts look alike but the new one looks warm, inviting, fun, and cuddle-able!

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  9. What a wonderful story and you were a super nana to restore those memories and bits of cloth into a new quilt.

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  10. Wow, that is a quilt that has seen much better days! I love that you are salvaging parts to use in the next generation version. Great job!

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  11. I wondered how you could possibly rescue the quilt but I see that you managed a solution. That was one well used/loved quilt.

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  12. what a wonderful story and quilt too!

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  13. Delightful story. You can be glad the original backing had polyester in it because that is what kept the quilt from falling to pieces. I'm excited for you. Have fun on your grandson's birthday.

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