The woeful tale of the tattered puppy

On March 17, 2010 I gave my grandson a quilt with dogs and bone for his 7 year old birthday.  Unfortunately I did not take a picture of him with the quilt but here he is in all his cuteness.  Born on St. Patrick's Day with beautiful red hair.  I had prayed that my first grandchild would have red hair, and the St Patrick's Day was just an added blessing.

He returned with his quilt in 2014, with a poor tattered dog.  The fabric has simply deteriorated fortunately just on one of the dogs.  I had bought this fabric at Walmart and after seeing the problem, have not bought from there again.  I had to rip out the poor tattered puppy and applique a replacement.  The quilting had been done by a long-arm quilter and was still good, so I simply turned the quilt over and quilted that area on my machine from the back side following her quilting pattern.  As you can see he is a little older and is very happy to get his quilt back.  

Now, in 2024, my grandson is 21 yrs old and he shows up again with his tattered quilt.  He tells me he is still sleeping with it every night and hopes I can fix it again.

So I cut off 4inches of the top, and that took care of that problem,   But the binding was also frayed.  I double fold my bindings, and the top layer of fabric was gone, but the back side of the fold was still in place and holding together.  I was fortunate in that I still had some of the fabric I used to originally bind it 14 years ago, cut off the frayed binding and sewed on new binding.

Once again he is happy to have his quilt come home.  I warned him that the backing is flannel and is really getting a little worn, but still holding up with no tears.  I suggested he carefully wash it in the future only if necessary.