Help with wavy border
#14
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Wis
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You're speaking my language! And I do not like to redo things at all, but that's just me. I've handled it by adding tucks (the border was really wavy and the border fabric was a busier fabric - I couldn't even find the tucks after it was quilted); doing a tighter piano key type quilting in the wavy areas; and having the fuller part against the presser foot when I attached the binding, working the fuller part in by slightly stretching the binding. After my quilts are washed they are pretty flat.
#16
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: central Indiana
Posts: 1,166
I know exactly how you are feeling. I have a wall-hanging that I *know* I need to remove the borders and measure and do them correctly. It is a real pain but one of these days I will do it. I would always notice the problem.
#17
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 965
Sometimes the problem is not "just" the border, but the body of the quilt. If the main part of the quilt is stretched in any way and that can happen if you are working with blocks that have biased edges, then you need to adjust the length of your borders to reign everything in.
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