My DIL asked if this binding could be fixed. It's the quilt Friend Marilyn and I made for her when she and my son were engaged. It's been a much loved and used quilt and she's washed it a lot. A lot. Now the binding all the way around has frayed and split. I know I can put a new binding on, but the advice I need is which way is better? Do I take the old binding off or put the new one over the old? I have Friend Marilyn's advice and it's not that I don't like or believe what she said, I just wonder if there is a general consensus out there about the right way to do this. Take it off or go over it? What do you say?
Never having had this problem yet...I would tend to take off old binding and redo. Or whip stitch the frayed edges and pop another binding over the top for extra fabric and more strength....or not.....don't know really. Helpful? Lol.
ReplyDeleteThere will be lots of unpicking and will that do more damage????
ReplyDeleteAlso it appears to be quilted close to the edge. will unpicking upset all of this.?... Good luck
ReplyDeletenever had the problem but I would possible just sew a bigger one over the top..........
ReplyDeleteHmmm.....for some odd reason roofing practices came to mind. Roofers lay a new roof over the old roof ONCE. The third time they remove the old two layers and lay a new one. Given this thinking, I'd say add a new binding over the old THIS time, and if there's a next time remove both. By then several things may happen.....1) it will be so love-worn they won't bother in which case you won't be asked, or 2) they'll have asked for a new quilt relegating this one to the linen closet, or 3) you'll be old and feeble so they'll need someone else to redo it. Either way, it's a wonderful situation to have a quilt so loved and treasured they want it fixed. Hope this made you giggle!
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