Hi all of you wonderful quilting experts. Once again I need your advice. I'm new to quilting (only 4 years) and even newer to finishing a quilt. I'm almost finished quilting a rather large (for me) quilt. I quilted it in sections using a walking foot and anchored the blocks in the ditch before doing anything inside the blocks, but now I'm getting ready to quilt the border. I may even get up the courage to do some FMQ in it. My dilemma is whether I should baste the outer edge all around before starting to quilt the border, or just leave it pinned and quilt it first. I feel like I should baste it to anchor it down first, but then I'm afraid that the quilting will bunch it up if it's fixed in place. I'd appreciate your expert advice, and thank you in advance for your help. You guys have never let me down yet!
