The quilt has 30 blocks, and not a single one didn’t need something. Some were fairly simple, just restitching the ric-rack or mending a small hole, but a few were much more involved.
There is no batting, exactly, in the quilt. Rather, a recycled, lightweight fleece served as both batting and backing. There was also essentially no quilting. Just some stitch-in-the-ditch at the sashing and between the blocks. The blocks themselves are roughly 13″ x 14″. You can guess some of the problems that causes.
This block, and two similar to it, had ruined backgrounds. The birds were in ...
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