Sailing Takes Me Away

Sailboats! This beauty came to us for repair. It’s been very “well loved” and in her family for a long time. Her great grandmother was over 100 years old and refused to take her quilts to be quilted by anyone who used a machine! So it was quilted all by hand. Most of the repairs will be completed by hand. See more of our repair work here.

If you have an old quilt that needs repair, give us a call 678-324-8084. It’s a good idea to try and bring it in when you notice any holes or tears. Holes don’t repair themselves. Wouldn’t that be nice. Self-sealing quilts ! Fabrics used in quilts can vary from very good and still in very good condition to cheap with holes and showing more signs of wear. With time worn areas tend to get larger. We have had some quilts where just one fabric was the culprit and consistently had holes or tore across the entire quilt, when everything else was fine.

We’ll look at the back, too. Sometimes the back needs attention, but sometimes not. We’ll come up with an estimate based on what we think needs to be done and present for your approval. Once we receive your ok, we get started.

Repairs are hourly. You can set a time or dollar budget that we can use as a guideline. A time budget could be, for instance, do whatever it takes, no matter how long it takes or don’t go over 20 hours. A dollar budget would be, let me know if it’s going to be more than $800.

Hand repairs are usually not cheap, but if it’s a special quilt, it can be very well worth it to restore it so that it can hopefully last another hundred years!

Here’s one example of what we’re doing on the sailboat quilt. The sailboat on the left was pretty holey and you can see where the middle layer, the batting, was poking through. There were also holes in the surrounding red fabric. We thought it more efficient to recreate the entire block, or sailboat square, rather than to fix the individual holes.

We recreated the sailboat on the left and replaced it with fabrics the customer approved of on the right. Now we’ll hand sew it, replacing the “well loved” boat to restore areas like this on the quilt it to useable condition. It looks like it’s been on a trip or two!

Let us know if you have questions. Pictures can often give us a good idea of what needs to be done.