Help sewers! Fragile torn material repair

[Happylittlethoughts]

Hi experts,
My daughter has an old cushion that is now worn and torn and super fragile. It's a thin cotton and I've been frantically googling to see what I can do to stabilise and repair multiple tears and frays.
There's fabric glue, there's webbing, there's iron on repair, powder, interfacing 😭 I don't know what's best, without causing more damage! Including photos it's stuffed with paper towel to exposed worst of frays / tears as I've just washed it. Any advice greatly appreciated. I appreciate its tricky if you can't examine the item .

Can you post a picture?

Apologies, my WiFi vanished..been buffering those pics for 10 mins

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Without seeing a photo, I can't say but I haven't had good results with iron-on fabric repair.

Might it be an option to do something like mount the cover in a frame and display it on the wall?

That looks absolutely shredded. Is the fabric very fragile?

Cross-posted. I'd go for a visible repair or cut the cover and use any good parts for patchwork

Here's a wider view

It's fragile around the top front and back as she slept on it and it's obviously suffered pulling most there.
I don't mind if a sympathetic material shows through, but what would you use to attach. I m sure sticking wouldn't work

Thank you for looking and suggestions...if you were to go via the backing and sticking it on to that ...what would you use. Would love Foxy to stay as intact as poss 🤞🤞🤞

It looks like Liberty Tana Lawn or similar
It does got like that

What not use some to make something else? Or just keep it but not stuffed as a cushion

Looks like you will repair 1 point and another will go.

How confident are you at sewing?

Not very? If it's a standard size I would buy a new cushion cover to slip inside the torn one, then gently hand stitch around the holes/torn places to fasten the fragile old cover to the strong new inner cover. Take your time with it, keep the stitches as small as you can. You can decide if you want to use a matching or contrasting thread.

Pretty confident? You could turn it inside out, apply iron-on interfacing to all the edges, and then sew the edges together while inside out. When you turn it right side out, the repairs will be visible but tidy.
OR accept that this cushion cover is beyond its useful life, but you could cut a large shape (star? Heart?) from it, and appliqué that onto a new cover.

The best you could do is to cut out the bits of Foxy and add him to another cushion.

That fabric looks very, very worn and most things you would do to it to make it stronger would also make it stiffer, less usable as a cushion.

My best advice would be to cut out all the bits of fabric that feel strongest and to fuse* them onto a new piece of fabric then make that into something.

*Double sided iron interfacing, a light weight one would do.

Thanks everyone, lots to think about here. I'm not a great sewer so my talents are limited.

Ok.

The easiest thing would be to buy a ready made bag or cushion and then to use double sided interfacing to iron on any bits you want to save.

The interfacing is easy to buy, Hobbycraft, Dunelm, The Range etc all carry it

Most of his face looks fairly whole, I think I would cut out the face, leaving a margin around it, patch the torn areas with the best of the rest of the cushion then use interfacing to strengthen it before appliqueing him to a new plain cushion cover.

I wonder if the Repair Shop (BBC) is still taking on projects such as this?