Originally Posted by Prism99
The photos in books are posed. Most likely the people doing the photography don't realize that binding is the last step in the process, after quilting. They just put an already finished quilt under the sewing machine needle as if the quilting had just been done. One would always want to quilt before binding.
It just didn't occur to me that they would make such an obvious error especially when the pictures are designed to teach! And this is a book I've been taking to heart - The Quilter's Bible :roll:
Thanks for the tip to check the batting tag. That's in the bottom of my batting bin, so I'll definitely check it out. I've used a cotton batt. When I talk about cross lines, it's because right now my quilting lines are close enough together, but they all run parallel so I need to figure out some way to divide up those long, skinny spaces.