Back years ago, when I first started cross stitching, my grandmother gave me 2 pieces that her mother, my great grandmother, had stitched. Since I was only in 4th grade, my mother kept them in one of her china hutch drawers. Last night, I remembered them and went looking for them. My mother didn't remember them at all, which was a bad sign. After cleaning out the entire china hutch, I found them, smashed in the back, stored in terrible conditions. The are all wrinkly and have creases all over them, and 2 of the stitches have pulled out on one of the pieces. I dont know how to go about flattening them out, I don't know if an iron will be safe for these. I dont know the year(s) they were stitched, but my great grandmother was born in 1894, or so, and she stitched them while she was still young, I think. I think they may be about 75 years old. I should ask my grandmother, she might know.
Anyway, any suggestions on how to smooth them?
If anyone is curious, here are the pictures of them:
That's Little Red Riding Hood, which may have been used as a towel. Two stitches have been pulled out, which I can pull back through with a very fine crochet hook.
- Detail of Red Riding Hood and the wolf...

Here is the parrot that she made.

After thinking about how there isn't a lot of detail and different color in them, I realize
there probably werent over 400 different colors of floss that were readily available. ;-)

I love these pieces, any ideas that can help them?