Before and After

The guild that I am a member of puts out a newsletter each month. One of the members sent in a request to be published. She knew someone that had an applique pillow that needed repair.  I emailed the member and told her I was interested. We met at one of local quilt shops and this is the pillow she gave me.

 The original request from the owner of the pillow was just to repair the background fabric. Well, I didn't see any way of doing that without taking the whole thing apart. So I carefully un-sewed the rooster making sure to keep it all together as much as possible. I did not want to lose any of those pieces. Then I un-sewed the background fabric from that blue border fabric. This pillow had been used a lot and the fabrics were very faded. If you look close on the main body of the rooster you can see some yellow embroidery. All but those two lines were missing. A lot of the brown embroidery on his chest was broken threads. If you look to the right you can see where there is top stitching done on the brown that was an attempt to repair the piece.

 Here is Mr. Rooster in all his glory again.

 I appliqued him to the new background and did all the embroidery over again. I replaced the purple part with a color that was similar to the faded piece which was torn too. I added the yellow embroidery that I could see on the original piece.

 Then I hand quilted around the rooster like the original piece. The lady who owns this pillow must love it very much for some reason to want it repaired. I hope she will be happy with my repairs.

With Passion,
Carrie P.