Is funny you ask this today. I was getting ready to start a thread on this same topic. I was watching at The quilt Show the free lessons by Linda Taylor and I never knew that long armers stabilize the quilt around the edges and around the blocks before quilting. It got me thinking about stabilizing one before quilting on my domestic machine. It was a smaller wall hanging. I made sure my layers were flat and pinned well. I then stitched around the borders and around the blocks. I quilted, and kept thinking that it would bunch at some point. To my surprise, it never did. It is actually one of my best. The corners don't curl. I love it.