That's what I do I safety pin it from the middle out and I start hand quilting from the middle out, that way I get all the wrinkles out and I don't run into a problem when I get to the edge of the quilt. I made a very big mistake when I was first starting out I bound the quilt before I starting hand quilting ran into a lot of problems doing that. Now the last thing I do is bind the quilt after I have hand quilted it.