binding problems
First of all Hallelujah! the Blue Irish Chain is finished and ready to be given as a wedding gift for my DGD's mother. It gave me fits applying the binding. I've had the occasional pucker or slipped edge that I had to go back and fix, but both sides of this quilt had to be ripped off and hand basted before returning to the machine. I tried starch. I think there were two issues. 1. There was no cross quilting to hold the edge. It was all vertical and about 2" from the edge. 2nd, the sides were WOF on the top and length of fabric on the back. That allowed the top to stretch and fold since it was against the feed dogs. Took me two days of ripping and repairing, but it' done and lesson learned!