Thread: Waves when hanging
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Old 04-13-2016, 02:10 PM
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hobbykat1955
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Originally Posted by QuiltnLady1 View Post
In addition to measuring the middle of the quilt to get the length of the borders, Marti Michell suggests that you may want to FMQ the quilt before adding borders. In addition you should cut your borders on the straight grain (parallel to the selvage) rather than cross grain (WOF) especially when the piece is going to hang. Before I add the borders, I make sure my sides are exactly the same length.
That could be the reason my last quilt had no waves because I needed longer then WOF and did cut on straight grain.
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