A month of mending: Day 3
This is the warmest quilt we own. My mom rescued it from a thrift store for a few dollars, and for the last eight years at least, it’s been on my bed. It’s a queen-sized whole-cloth quilt, made sometime in the 70s, most likely. The batting is polyester, and here on the edge where the binding has come loose, it has torn and bunched up quite a bit. I’ll rearrange it as best I can before I put it back together, but this will always be a slightly lumpy spot.
There are lots of these tiny holes, and quite a few spots where the quilting stitches have come out. I imagine that in a former life, someone didn’t love this quilt very much, and let their puppy chew on it. The holes seem to be clustered together like tiny milk teeth nips. I’ll save both of these tasks for another day. First things first.
My thread is a bit light, but this is on the back of the quilt, so I’m not too worried about it. Actually, this is the same spool I used for yesterday’s mending. This is just a simple slip stitch.
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Olga is always close by whenever I’m working. She took this photo.
The original quilting stitches are done in a medium length running stitch like this. I’m not going to get too much into quilting today, but I do want to secure the loose batting near the binding mend. I’m breaking one of my rules today: Always mend like with like. All I have today is polyester thread, so that’s what I’m using. When I get a chance, I’ll pick up some matching cotton thread to do all of the quilting, and I’ll pull out this row that I just did.
But that’s all for today, because somebody got sleepy.