I finished the quilt repair and here are the final photos.
The replacement fabrics in this photo are the yellow and the pink floral just above Elma's name.
In this photo you can see the quilt is twin sized. I replaced 14 of the original triangle pieces. One was not really bad enough but the original maker had matched the fabric on facing squares so I followed that pattern.
I left the original fabric below the appliqued new pieces and tried to match the colorations as best I could. The backing was in wonderful condition so when I did the quilting on the new pieces I only sewed through the top and the batting, not going all the way through the back. That way the original quilting is still there and the new pieces are still quilted in the same pattern as the old. On a few places all I needed to to was to insert a tiny piece of fabric and do a buttonhole stitch around the hole.
The owner was very happy with it!
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