restoration

silkparadise
Girls this is a picture of a tablecloth edge. It had been attacked by hungry or cold mice ????
I have had to unpick around the damage and then restore, the original work was in a thin very highly twisted cotton the thread was no longer available so the "restoration thread" is thinner. You can imagine the work involved unpicking very tight tension crochet at least 70 years old and bites here and there. Whenever I get an area nicely unpicked and I start to crochet it might start to unravel further along. There were over 20 damaged pieces. The picture shows what was probably the worst piece. Anmyway there is less than 10 places to restore.! I will definitely do a happy dance when it is finished.