My quilt guild has an event every November called "Country Store". That is when we haul in handmade items, fabric, unwanted sewing notions, etc., etc., and try to sell them to each other. It should probably be called a Swap Meet. I brought home as much fabric as I sold and more odds and ends than I got rid of, but that is OK. One treasure that I got was a grandmother's flower garden quilt done in brighter colors than usual. It had a lot of red, which I like, but that red had bled a bit and given the quilt a red and pink color scheme. It also had several holes that went clear though the quilt and a couple of chunks chewed off of the edges. Small holes. Small chunks. I patched the back with pink fabric to almost match the formerly(?) white fabric, then cut pieces of batting to fill the middle of the holes. A little stitching was added to hold the new batting in place and help pull the ragged edges together a bit. Then I appliqued down some patches on the front of the quilt and did a little quilting to replace the missing stitches.

As you can see, I didn't put much effort into perfectly matching the patches with the missing fabric. Close enough is good enough, I decided. Finally, I ran the quilt through a machine wash (with a couple of dye magnet sheets to help stop further color migration) to freshen it up... and tah dah... a beautiful new tablecloth:
