Originally Posted by
redneckwoman
I've always been told that if you want you're quilt to look longer sew the top and bottom on first if you want it to look wider sew the sides on frist
Because that is the effect that it it has. You can see it easily how it looks using EQ
Long horizontal (put sides on first):
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long vertical (put top and bottom on first):
[ATTACH=CONFIG]502903[/ATTACH]
Neither is actually harder to sew than the other. In fact, on occasion, I have gotten mixed up and done the long vertical when I wanted to do the long horizontal (the first one) just because it is somewhat easy to do if the quilt is similar in size.
But in truth, if the border is a print, it is hard to see where the seams are and the end just looks like this:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]502904[/ATTACH]