Originally Posted by lberna
When attaching a border to the quilt, do you put the border down on the sewing machine with the quilt on top or do you put the quilt down the machine with the border on top. Sometimes I get a slightly ruffled border. I try very hard not to stretch anything but it still happens.
I measure my quilt top, usually in 3 or more spots (NEVER the edge). Cut boarder the average of the 3 measurements. Then I pin boarder to top, so the boarder is on top, quilt top is on the machine.