Originally Posted by salmonsweet
Originally Posted by Jingleberry
Possibly if you can clamp it down while sandwiching it you can gently tug it into being straight and try getting the top and those edges to be straight and put in tons of safety pins and when quilting only take out a few pins at a time and hold taunt with hands as you quilt it. Do the above on each side. I almost only do FMQ and think it hides alot of flaws after the quilt is washed and dried. Kind of hard to put into words. It is beautiful and I'm sure you will be able to get it to turn out and it won't be noticeable when it's finished.
Jingleberry, thanks for this. Sounds good! I don't have a table big enough for for clamping but I have a wooden floor to tape stuff to!
I'm planning to MQ large meanders across the center and I've done that on my practice sandwiches without even taking pins out, just flowing around.
I was thinking about you this morning, and remembered you mentioned machine quilting ... FMQ, I assume <g> anyway, if you get all the layers basted/pinned together, the quilt is good to go, and if I were working with your quilt as you have described it, I would definitely start in the middle, just to ease the fullness away from that area ...
if your quilt is laying on a flat surface, can you put your hand down and almost contain all the bubble in one, relatively small area? Then, you might consider in JUST that area, doing some following the seam lines before you go into flowing lines, working out from the middle ... sort of a fine line - - have to at least anchor the bubble down, but you don't want to flatten it out so much that the bubble GROWS as it moves away from the area ...
the more space between your quilting lines, the more likely that the fabric will "level" out following the washing and drying event.
Hope I haven't confused you <wave>