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demo, finished quilts, tutorial · March 20, 2013

Fixing the disaster

When I realized there were two blocks turned in my friend’s quilt as I was sewing on the binding my heart sank.  It was such a hard decision whether to just leave it or try to fix it.  I ended up fixing it.  It wasn’t hard, but was time consuming because I wanted the repair to be as inconspicuous as possible.  Here’s how I did it.
I started by carefully removing the quilting stitches from the two blocks and about 1 inch into the surrounding blocks.  Then I “unsewed” the blocks, turned them the right way and sewed them back together.  Because I didn’t want to remove any more quilting than absolutely necessary, I had to hand stitch a 1/2 inch area that I couldn’t turn.  You can see the stitches in the close-up but they are really almost invisible.

fix-1

Remove the quilting stitches to the seam (this will make it easier to bury the knot), leaving tails long enough to knot.  Usually I would do this from the back of the quilt, not the front but the back was a solid gray fabric and I knew it would be easier to hide the repair in the print fabric on the front.

fix-2

After the tails were tied in a knot I used a self-threading needle to bury the threads.  I love these needles for this purpose because they can be threaded with short tails.  You just slip the thread through a slot in the top of the needle.  If you can’t find them locally they are available from Amazon (who knew?) here.

fix-3

Insert the tip of the needle a stitch length away from the stitching line and bring it up an inch or so away. 

fix-4

Pull the thread through.

fix-5

Then clip off the threads.

fix-6

Re-quilt the area.  When you start, leave the tails on so you can tie them off and bury them like you did when you removed the stitching.

fix-7

Repeat this process for every start and stop you have to do in the repair.  I had four.  In the end though, you couldn’t even tell on the solid backing fabric.

fix-8

Like I said, it wasn’t really hard to do, it just took a lot of time.  My friend picked up the quilt on Monday and she was very happy with it.  It did turn out well, especially since she is a beginning quilter.  It is queen size and since my quilt stand broke I had to fold it over this drying rack to photograph it.  This is about 1/4 of the quilt.  You can see that from this though that the turned blocks would have really stood out.  And I really wonder why we didn’t catch it earlier???

jans quilt-2

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  1. Rhonda says

    March 20, 2013 at 1:57 pm

    I think that the fabrics and design were so busy is maybe why you didn’t catch the turned block before. But great tutorial on how to remedy the situation. I sometimes take photo of the blocks before I sew them together. You can see what needs to be fixed easier.

  2. Gayle Bong says

    March 25, 2013 at 10:00 pm

    Bravo! great fix. Sounds like you make a great friend too.

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