Originally Posted by sewjean
Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
Ya know, I never measure and I never have wavy borders. I don't put my quilts together in rows though so they come out squarer to start with. Then when I sew the border on I always sew with the quilt on the bottom. I also fold my border in half and pin from the center to each end.
If not put together in rows, how is the quilt put together.
Put the blocks together in pairs. Then put the pairs together into giant four patches. Then put the giant four patches together into pairs continuing until you have the quilt in four quarters. Sew the top and bottom quarters together and then the top and bottom halves together. You end up with only one long seam. Since you're putting the blocks into four patches you can make the block intersections match perfectly. That's where perfect matches matters the most. By the time you get to the end of a long seam any imperfections are multiplied. Plus when you add a whole row at a time if it's just a hair off that will be mulitiplied by the time you get to the last row and your quilt will tend towards trapazoid instead of square.
The biggest plus of all is you only have the whole quilt on the machine once.