Has anyone squared up a Quilt using the outer border as a Guide?
The quilt sandwich has been quilted and now its time to square it up. The outer border was approx. 4.5" in width.
A friend told me to use the outer border seam line as a guide to get the quilt square and the border the same width after quilting distorted it. First I had to find the narrowest part of the border around the 4 sides. The side with the narrowest border was the side to begin squaring up. I ended up placing the ruler on the outer border seam line at the 4" mark and squared up the first side using the standard method of placing a large square ruler on the corner and having the rulers meet down the side making sure the rulers were all on the 4" mark along the seam line. I did the same on the other 3 sides, thus ending with a 4" border.
Has anyone else squared up a quilt with a border this way?
Thanks for your input.