janjanq

Last summer I made a queen size quilt for my bed. I made it in Michigan where I live but the quilt was made for the bed in our Florida winter home. Unfortunately I didn't take any measurements of the bed and in a any case I made it as big as I could with the fabrics i had. (Made mostly with charm packs). When I got back to Florida and put it on the bed I found that it is barely big enough. The bed has an elastisized bed ruffle. The quilt reaches just to the top of the bed ruffle but doesn't overlap it. Now we're thinking of adding a foam topper to the mattress, which will of course make the quilt too small. I recently bought 3 yards of fabric on clearance which is from the same collection as the charm squares. I was thinking about making a ruffle from the fabric and sewing it by hand in the binding seam on the underside of the quilt. Or perhaps some wide eyelet, although that would probably be expensive. I've even thought about adding a quilted border but don't know how that would look and I really don't want to remove and reattach the binding. Has anyone enlarged an already completed quilt? Any suggestions?