My daughter-in-law Lauri gave me a quilt to restore back in December.

It was her baby quilt. Yeah, as in when she was a baby!

She’s 40.

So….

That quilt has to be right about the same age.

I took that quilt home and studied it.

It had issues!

It’s a “leisure suit larry quilt” cause a lot of those square were from that time frame!

Almost every square is a polyester knit.  There are a few that are a pre-quilted navy blue cotton bit.

The batting is entirely gone except in the seams!

I’m doing the restoration between other projects so it will take a while.  Many of the 5 1/2″ square are bad. Snagged.  Holes.  Runs.  But many of them are perfect.  40 years old and still hanging in there.

So I am very methodically ripping each row apart.  Replacing bad squares with new knit fabric that I have in my stash and stuff I have pulled out of the learning center donations.  (Several new squares are left-over fabric from the two dresses I made out of jersey knit)

I already bought a backing fabric.  The backing on the original quilt was yellow so I went with a yellow cotton material with little circles.  (Lauri has a thing for circles!)

The backing is frayed and torn.

I’ve got four rows done.  Replaced 25 squares.  Many more rows to go and at least another 30 squares to replace!

Sorry Lauri, this could take me a couple more years!