Originally Posted by
nabobw
You must square the top up before you sandwich it. You then sew the binding on, and by doing it this way you make sure to have batting in the binding, then you cut off the batting and backing to the left of the binding. This is not squaring up the quilt as the top has already been squared up.
My quilts get some distortion when they are quilted. They pucker up a little and seem to always be a little off square after the quilting process. So I always square them and trim them before I apply the binding. Maybe I'm quilting them wrong?