PiedPiper

I haven't really worked with panels before, but a nice one caught my son's eye, and I want to make a wall hanging for him. The question I have is about how best to square it up. It's cut very accurately along the marked cut lines from selvedge to selvedge, down the sides of the design, but it's anything but square with those selvedges. So it looks more like a rhombus than a regular rectangle, if that makes sense.

I'm not sure how to handle this. I *really* don't want to cut anything off the sides in order to make them square with the selvedges (losing design, and making it way skinny), nor do I want it to have an obvious "ring" in it when it's hanging. Should I instead cut the selvedges "crooked" but making them square with the cut sides of the design? So that at least I will have a regular rectangle, but it won't be along the straight of grain at all.

Or I suppose I could just buy 2 iterations of the panel and cut it how I want, but I really don't want to have to spend the extra $$.

I hope this makes sense! Any tips would be greatly appreciated - or even reassurance that it's okay to not have the rectangle coinciding with the grain!


​​​​​​Thanks in advance!!