Originally Posted by
BellaBoo
I remember taking a class years ago and the instructor did her quilting just opposite of what most do now. She layered her quilt and turned it, she called it birthing the quilt. She basted the quilt with long running stitches from side to side and top to bottom then diagonal both ways. She then machine quilted the quilt and had no puckers or poofs. She then trimmed off the seam from the turning and added a binding. I'm sure she had a book she wrote, I remember her signing some. I didn't buy one as I was addicted to crochet at the time. LOL
I have not seen anyone sew around the quilt and then turn it, but it sounds completely logical to me! I have just finished a back and front of a single bed quilt and could easily have done it that way before quilting it. My back was pieced as well as my front and I was very carefull to make sure both sides were measured exactly. I used repeats of 8" blocks. When I layered it, they sides, top and bottom came out evenly. Then I began to worry that I should add a border to the back for a LA quilter's sake. My next fear was that the border added to the back might accidentally show when it was finished and I surely did not want that. What you describe sounds like the best way to do it. It certainly couldn't hurt anything.