Favorite Things

Nancy is a huge fan of the original Sound of Music with Julie Andrews.  What a great soundtrack it has!  In one of the songs, Maria helps the children cope with a frightening thunderstorm by sharing some of her favorite things.  She mentions doorbells and sleighbells but she also mentions warm woolen mittens and satin sashes.  These last items bring to mind some of our favorite things - quilts - new quilts, antique quilts, baby quilts, tshirt quilts.  You get the idea!  We have recently had the opportunity to do some antique quilt repairs and have truly enjoyed those projects.  Here are a few before and after pics.

 The next pictures are the finished project of one of our repairs.  The customer sent us all of the pieces from a quilt that had been worked on over a period of several years by her grandmother and mother.  She sent the deconstructed pieces hoping we could salvage them.  We had to add some of our vintage fabrics and do a lot of hand-stitching.  This was our interpretation of what we imagined her grandmother and mother originally made.

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Ready to ship the newly repaired quilt, we sent her these pics and she wasn't sure she really liked the smaller squares.  She felt like they were distracting.  However, we were using those smaller squares (originally made by her family members) to cover some holes created through the years. 




When she got the actual quilt, she sent us a note.   Here is what our customer had to say about the finished product:  "we wanted to say thank you for the quilt...! You totally made the right call with the flower patches to cover the cutout corners- the quilt is a great size and the pattern looks good. 


So, if you have some well-worn/well-loved family heirlooms, we would love the opportunity to revitalize them for you!  We have a nice stash of vintage fabrics that we can use to fill in as needed.  Or, you can send us pieces of what you have left and see if we can bring life back to your favorite things.