What do you do with an old quilt top? My step Dad's wife had a quilt top her mother made that she wanted me to create two quilts with for her daughters. The sashing was coming apart and the top needed a good cleaning. It looked like it had some type of glue on some parts of it. At first I thought I could repair the sashing and divide the top into two as she suggested. But the sashing was partly machine sewn and hand sewn. Very strange. So I decide to take it apart instead. After it was apart I soaked the whole thing in Retro Clean for a day. Man the water was brown when I went to pull it out! I nice cold rinse and I quick toss in the dry on a cool setting. I then Ironed and starched every piece. After that I trimmed everything even. The sashing was different sizes. No wonder it looked weird. I don't have any pictures of the before quilt top. I had a couple of sashing pieces that were damaged by the glue that I didn't want to put back in the quilt. Because I
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