Originally Posted by
Tartan
Since you have a longarm, I would remove the basting and load it to see if some of the fullness would come out. I then might quilt the white background to let the flowers pop up to disguise any fullness.
thank you for the advice Tartan. I wasn’t sure about the fullness issue. The person who basted it for her didn’t do a great job & I already spent a couple hours fixing a couple places - should have gone ahead & taken it all out then. I was ( reluctant) to do that because she trimmed everything really close to the edges. I sewed ( leaders) to each end to give me some room to work- the edges have about 1/2” of backing & less batting. I don’t know why she trimmed it so close before it was quilted. I know the person who basted it did this, the ( owner) passed away before she got it back- & her husband wasn’t sure why they gave him a bunch of cut away batting.