Originally Posted by vickynboise
Help! I am regressing in my quilting skills!!
I've been quilting for decades and I am suddenly having reoccurring problems with adding borders.
When the quilt top is ready for its borders to be sewn on, the top is flat. But when I sew the first 3" border on, it doesn't lay flat anymore! It's driving me nuts!
I know about the measuring down the center of the quilt to determine the length of the borders. This has always worked for me. But now it's failing. Does anyone have any tricks??
Thanks in advance for your insights.
You don't say how you feed into the machine, but I had similar problems with my big quilt. I solved it by placing the quilt top on the bottom, and border fabric on top so that if anything is shifted by the feed dogs, it will be the flat top piece, not the 'looser' border fabric. If this isn't clear, let me know and I will try to explain better. If any of you can make this clearer, please do. (I remembered when learning to sew drunkards path, I was always told to put the larger piece on the bottom.) Clear as mud? :shock: