I have made it a habit to baste around the edge of my finished quilt about 1/8"in from the edge, Using a walking foot. This helps to stabilize those areas that are not quilted close to the edge.
After quilting, most instructions say to trim the excess batting and backing off the quilt. I do this in two steps.
First I trim the excess leaving 1" of batting and backing around the edge. This gives the feed dogs something to grip to move the quilt forward through the machine when I baste it around the edge.
Second, I sew the binding on to the front of the quilt.
Third, I trim the 1" extra batting and backing off from around the edge.
Hope this helps for the future.
peace
Last edited by ube quilting; 08-08-2013 at 12:47 PM.