"I don't know nothin bout birthin no quilts!"(in my best Butterfly McQueen voice...)
Seriously, I've never done it before so I was a little nervous.
But I'm almost there thanks to the members of this board!
I read about it and then dove in after dinner. I ironed the fabric-both sides are flannel-and flipped the fabric so the top of the top faced the top of the bottom
I moved the coffee table and kind of smoothed one layer at a time onto the carpet which kind of held it all in place as I put safety pins along the edge every few inches
I started my seam a little more inward to hide stitching holes from previous assembly so I think it's about 3/4" smaller all the way around
It's laying a lot better now and it seems to be trying to form it's own binding now that I've turned it out.
I have the hole closed with many pins and I'm going to sleep on it before I do anything else
Trying to figure if I just tie it and be done with it, stitch in the ditch to secure binding effect or do some kind of decorative stitching to achieve that then kind of fluff it out and tie it out(applying the "It will quilt out" principle that really does work sometimes...)
I hope she will be happy with it
I was kind of afraid I would mess it up or something
Sometimes it's the easiest things I stumble on-maybe because I'm not expecting to.
