You have a lot of suggestions. I would also ask myself "What is the purpose of this quilt?" That might give you the answer to how much time you want to take. If the quilt is going to be used as a picnic quilt, I probably would just stitch a bit more to the backing or maybe even just trim it off and bind. If this quilt is going to a special grandchild, I just might take it apart and baste it again. I actually have done both. I am not sure how much bigger the backing is than the front, but I always try to make my backing on anything bigger than a table topper at least 4 inch bigger on all side which makes it 8 inches wider and longer than the top. Basting will eat up some backing sometimes but the actual quilting takes up even more. I keep the part of the backing that I trim off for scrap piecing but sometimes I find I have enough of the trimmed off backing to actually make the binding for the quilt. If I have extra backing fabric, I may even leave it on as that gives me a bigger piece of scrap fabric after trimming. I have a long arm so that helps a lot,I have even loaded all of the fabric I have on the longarm and used the same backing for another smaller project.
Last edited by sewingpup; 04-21-2022 at 05:50 AM.