Judy L's UFO Challenge

Thursday, January 17, 2013

What Have I Been Up To?

Last year while I was out of my house I took a quilt from a co-worker and agreed to work on it.  She described it as having a few tears.  When I folded back a corner it did appear to have tears but just a little worse than she described.  I did not fully open the quilt and agreed to take on the job.

When I opened it fully this is what I found.  There were pieces completely missing.  At first I tried whip stitching some of the spots closed but soon realized what an enormous task this would be.  I decided to remove all the quilting and then fix the top.  I soon realized I would never finish the task.  I finally took the entire top apart down to the individual piece and squared everything up.  If you read back through my blog you will see where I built this quilt back up from square one.  Before I did all this work I made sure everything I did was ok with the owner.

Here is the final quilted object waiting for a good wash and "going over" before returning it to it's owner.

 

9 comments:

Glen QuiltSwissy said...

Oh, what a great birthday present, you blogging again! And what a great quilt! You did a wonderful job on it. Maybe you should do this for a living?

glen

Krista said...

Looks wonderful! Glad to see you back on the blog.

Gari in AL said...

What an enormous job you had and a job well done.

Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilt said...

How great to see you online again! And your repair job is really nice.

Rhonda said...

Wow, bless your heart. You did a great job!!!

Deborah Hamilton said...

The quilt looks good as new. You did a great job on it.

phxquilt said...

Super repair job! Glad you're blogging again.

Linda said...

Good job and I'm glad you stuck with it. It was a big job. She will be so happy!

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