Originally Posted by
Jingle
I don't worry about squaring it up. I line mine up with the edge of the table leaving 2-3" over hang and start pinning. I no longer start pinning in the center. After many, many quilts I find this to be less wasteful. After pinning I trim all sides leaving 2-3". This makes it easier for me to quilt on my 9" throat machine.
when I was quilting on my DSM, I never squared at all, but the long arm won't play nice without it being square--it's like a bad foundation on a house.