Repair To Restore A Vintage Quilt

I was given this #vintage #Sue Bonnet quilt from either 

the 1930's to 1940's to make some repairs

 to this old damaged quilt.

I thought I took a picture of the damaged quilt but 

my files showed none.  (This blog was posted and

some how deleted.  I am rewriting and reposting.)

It's hard to tell but, a few of the dresses 

on the Sue Bonnet quilt needed to be 

replaced.  Here's one damaged dress.  

Before I attempted to work on this quilt I had 

to find some matching fabric that would go 

with the original pieces.  I did find the bright 

yellow one you see on the right.  It actually was

 a reproduction fabric from the 1940. 

 It was way to bright to use on the quilt so I 

bleached the fabric.  I would have liked the 

fabric to remain yellow but the end result was great.

after                                                                    before

After preparing the fabric

I carefully removed the embroidery floss from 

the dresses, the sleeves and on part of the bonnet

 in order to replace it and create a new pattern.  

The rest of the embroidery floss was 

removed from the bonnet once I started sewing.

I traced the dress onto the fabric I 

prepared.  The original fabric had the seam 

allowance folded under so I just added

 1/4" seam allowance to each dress.

I had to reverse one of the pattern 

pieces because Sue was facing the other way.

Here you see the dress pinned in place with 

the seam allowance turned under 1/4".

I also pinned the sleeve in place. 

I matched the color of the original embroidery floss used 

and began to sew.  In order to make it look right I did 

remove the rest of the embroidery floss from the bonnet.

  

When it came to repairing the larger holes on this vintage quilt I simply took some cotton thread and stitched around the hole to prevent the hole from getting larger.  The smaller holes were mended by hand with the same cotton thread to match the fabric.

Here's the end result and the quilt has been restored.  Can you tell which ones were redone?

He Has Made Everything Beautiful In Its Time.  
Ecclesiastes 3:11