Thanks for all the tips and help. I managed to get the lumps out and the quilt is looking much better. I've actually finished doing two rows of borders but now I'm getting to some instructions that are a little confusing because the width of my material isn't as long as my next border. The instructions had me cut one extra strip of material, the width of the fabric. It's now telling me to stitch the short ends together and then I need to cut a strip that will be the length of my border but it doesn't say where the seam should fall. I use to make draperies and always seamed fabric on the edges leaving the center without any seams but do you do that in quilting?
Where should a seam fall when you're piecing material together to make one long strip?