Originally Posted by
oldmanquilts
This question pops up from time to time and it always baffles me as to what the problem is.
Is everyone trying to cut the borders to the exact length before attaching to top. Why? To save yardage? Way too many steps and measurements where things could go bad.
Am I missing something by not following convention?
Yes. Doing it the way you do gives you a very good possibility that you will have wavy borders, which are a pain to quilt. All those steps and measurements where things could go bad, as you say, are actually
preventing things from going bad.