Originally Posted by
Prism99
I don’t like to sew around the perimeter first. At most I might use safety pins to keep the edges from separating and remove the pins as I go. I want the edges to be loose so any excess fabric isn’t trapped there.No chance of a big pucker at the edge that way. I don’t think perimeter sewing does anything to keep a quilt square.
Old Fashioned Me, again, but I pin and then baste, from the center out, then quilt from the center out, and I have never had a pucker or fold in the backing.