There are certain rules that should be followed when sewing a quilt.
1. Always use a quality cotton fabric as the backing, never a twin sheet. Â A twin sheet might be cheaper but you get what you pay for.
2. Always use fabric of about the same quality.
3. Always quilt the quilt as close as the label says you should.
4. Do not use Rayon thread as any of the decorative stitching, because rayon deteriorates quickly when washed repeatedly.
How do I know all of these things, because I once did all of these on one quilt. It became THE quilt to my daughter and now all of my errors and tightwaded-ness are haunting me. I took it down out  of the top of her closet to repair it. When I  saw how much repairing it needed I almost gave up, but she loves it. So it is worth saving. I have given it a new backing, new batting, patched all the holes, and it is slowly coming together. Basting it all together on the floor about killed me but it is reconstructing slowly. That really does look beautiful from a photograph but is quite the nightmare to sew on. Some of the fabric wasn’t cut on the grain and stretched. Some of it was a good quality and some wasn’t and you can now tell. So, it is rather wibbly wobbly in places. I don’t think she will care, if it isn’t perfect.
I have been wrestling it for two days and I am no where close to being finished with it, to top it all off my sewing machine is acting up. I am taking a break right now. I have ordered a new bobbin case. I hope that solves the problem but this repair is taking longer than I thought it would!
Talk to you later,
Karen
P.S. This is #10