5" D4P Progress and an Inherited UFO

I laid out the blocks for my 5" D4P yesterday and sewed all the rows together this morning before work. This is not the final layout as I noticed issues with the bottom right-hand corner blocks.




A while back, DH & I were going through what I thought was a cedar chest of his stuff.

Come to find out, it was a chest full of his (passed on) mother's stuff.  In it we found a hand-pieced quilt top with coordinating fabric that is 22-23" selvedge to selvedge. (Weird, right?)

I laid out the quilt top yesterday and got a picture of it. So now I have to add one more item to my UFO list.



I love it on my bed but it needs to be a little larger. It barely covers the top and just starts down the side by a few inches. I also need to fix a couple of blocks around the edges where the stitching has come undone.

Here is a picture of the hand-stitching. You can't really tell but there is a lot of yellowing. I wonder if ironing will set the yellowing ??? I should iron before quilting, right??





I think I will create a "Gifted/Inherited UFO" section to distinguish these from my personal UFOs.
I was thinking using the yardage to add sashing but it is faded in spots and is only 22-23 inches from selvedge to selvedge which is also very odd. Perhaps this is a way to date it?

DH thinks this may have been made by his maternal grandmother Mary Marguerite Pedneau Lindamood, as he doesn't remember his mother quilting. He does have examples of crocheting and cross stitch that she did. She passed in 1957, the year he was born. WOW!

None of the sides has any sashing at all so the first thing to do would be to add sashing at a minimum. I worry that any white I use will be whiter than what is there and certainly will be a better quality. Then I could add a row all around to make it bigger.

I need to ask if this would lower the eventual quilt value. At least the utility of the quilt would rise if it was at least a double-sized quilt. But is that the right thing to do?

I guess I need to take some more pictures for reference and review!

Yesterday, I did go to Quilting Adventures and purchased 4 battings and nothing else! My no-buy (except for the "B"s: batting, binding, backgrounds, borders) has been successful. I have gone no-buy since July. I feel very proud of myself as I was VERY tempted. So many yummy fabrics were touched and viewed but not purchased.

If I had gotten there earlier, I would have pinned up my 4" D4P quilt. I had everything in the car but only 30 minutes before closing was just not enough time. I wish I had a table at work that I could do this with.