Dresdin Flower Quilt
I love the family history behind these quilts as much as the quilts themselves! My customer wanted the quilt that was on her mother's childhood bed to be repaired. Her mother would have turned 100 years old this year. I am estimating that this quilt was made in the 1920' s. The colors in the quilt support a 1920's quilt as pink was a very popular color for quilts in that era, along with the fact
This quilt had little to no battling left in it and the white background fabric in the quilt top was so thin that you could see right through to the flowers on the backing fabric.
First thing I did was to remove all the quilting and take the layers of the quilt apart. I then interfaced the whole quilt top to reinforce the fabric so it would keep it's shape and support the quilting when I re-quilte
Then, I replaced all the flower patches that had holes in them or were too worn to support any hand stitches. I replaced over 30 flower patches by hand stitching new fabric patches in place.
On this block, I replaced several inner flower patches and all the outer flower patches (solid pink).
This block is repaired!
After all the repairs were finished, I put new batting inside and used the original quilt backing fabric which was in really good shape.
I then quilted through all the layers using my domestic sewing machine following as much of the original hand quilting as I could. I think machine quilting is stronger and more durable than hand quilting. It is definitely faster making it a more efficient and