My babysitter has a quilt that her aunt made out of upholstery fabric. It feels like a soft suede or velvet fabrics, but they are all different. Wonderful quilt. She did it log cabin style. Some of the pieces began to fray. Well I fixed by sewing by hand. Thankfully she had not washed it so it wasn't too bad. But my question is there anything else I can do if it happens again. Most of it seems really stable but there are a couple that I think are just going to keep fraying. Thanx Joanna remove quilt to reply
Help needed with a repair
Feb 10, 2007
2 Replies
hmm, tricky, if it was just the quilt top you could iron on a stabiser from the back, but that would be very hard and undoing the quilting to do that would likely do more damage. One thing that occurs is to get some iron on mending tape and expand the frays a little slip it in, then iron.
Other thoughts, maybe some zig zag machine quilting, or other decorative stitch. Is there any of the original fabric you could applique? or if not, get some toning stuff and applique something in a relevant theme in the worst places.
Anne
I would use fray guard before I put a needle to the repair.
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