Quiltingboard Forums - help with quilt back

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Originally Posted by Mamatron

Sorry, I don't know what take away strips are. Are they what they sound like? Extra strips sewn all around the edges? I am machine quilting this myself or trying to anyway but for future I would like to know what they are. Thanks.

I just made that up - think of it as "scaffolding" - a strip of fabric sewn on temporarily to give the extra size needed to be able to machine quilt it - and then cut off after the quilting is done.