Originally Posted by sandpat
Lesley, I think I am confusing you even more. The boders that will be short are 2 of the Pieced tri/Plain tri border. They make no allowance for the addition of the skinny border. No matter...it will work.
Today I got the narrow skinny outer sashing border sewn on and another tri border stitched together. Do ya'll think I should do the trapunto work PRIOR to sewing the border to the quilt or sew it to the quilt first???
Well, I give up on why there might be a difference in tri border sizes - I still can't see why.
As for when to quilt your trapunto, I would go before every time, otherwise you will have to be womanhandling the whole thing under your machine - do you really want to do that?