Repairing the Vintage 9 Patch
This gorgeous and uniquely pieced 9 patch quilt was fun to repair!
The seams in between the 9 patch blocks were either missing or seemed to be fragile, so I decided to repair it before washing it to ensure that it would stay together.
Here is an example of a missing seam.
This is an example of one of the many fragile seams before and after it was hand sewn back together. I hand sewed all the seams back together within all but 3 of the blocks. The seams were good in those 3 blocks.
Here is another example of a missing and fragile seam before and after I repaired it by hand.
I repaired a medium sized hole in the quilt by placing batting in the hole to fill the space, stabilized the fabric with fusible interfacing to keep it from fraying. I then hand sewed a patch over the hole, then quilted over it following the existing quilt pattern so that the patch would blend into the quilt.
Can you find the patch?
There was a patch in one of the quilt blocks that was torn and not enough fabric was left of it that I could pull it over and sew it into the seam. So I hand sewed a new piece of fabric over the torn patch. To try to keep the quilt as authentic as I could, I used a piece of vintage reproduction fabric to sew over the torn patch. So that the new brightly colored fabric would blend in with the o
Since I didn't have fabric that matched the torn fabric, I chose a piece of fabric that matched the overall block.
After the patch was repaired, I quilted over the block following the existing quilt pattern so that it would blend into the quilt.
Almost all of the quilting was missing from the polka dot border, so I replaced all of the missing quilting by hand.
Since the missing quilting is easier to see on the back of the quilt, I am showing both the front and the back.
After all the missing quilting was hand sewn back in place.
Next came a new binding around the edge of the quilt, which was hand sewn in place.
After the quilt was completely repaired, I handwashed it in my bathtub to remove a water mark from the top and bottom of the quilt and to brighten it up.
The finished quilt after it was laid flat to dry for 2 days on my dining room table!
This is a slow and very time consuming process, but the end results are well worth the effort!
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