We feel like miracle workers today! We were able to take the quilt on the left, all beaten up and chewed by a dog and re-make it into the one on the right, an updated, modern, usable new quilt while maintaining the essential elements of the old.
If you look closely at the 'after' shot, you can see that we maintained the full integrity of each of the embroidered blocks even to the point of capturing the original hand quilting. We tightly stippled around each of the newly set blocks with reproduction fabrics of the time, bringing out the beauty of the original work.
This was one of the most fun quilts to work on because we really got to work outside the box. Although it was scary to cut into the original quilt at first, it became a real technical and artisitic challenge to maintain the character and feeling of the old design.
I think we did a great job, if I do say so myself!
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