Thanks for the explanation.

Thank you for the wonderful explanation!

Thanks for the explanation! Learned a new term...anyway..depends on the quilting I plan to do in the border..if it's geometric, it's easier to blend a stop/start place, if it's flowing, like feathers, then I will turn the quilt.Also, for me, some designs just flow better for me in one direction, so I will decide based upon my preference for direction.

Wide blue tape.
I gotta try that
thanks for the tip, Iceblossom!

If I have borders to quilt, I always remove the quilt from the frame (after the north and south borders have been quilted, along with most of the body of the quilt) to quilt the final borders. I find my borders look much better, smooth and flowing borders are important to me.

whoa....I was a chunker and didn't even know it! I even planned my border design when I did one (mostly just go for over-all quilting and have gotten away from borders more and more...preferring just to have borderless quilts) .....to be able to include the borders in the pass I was on so I didn't have to turn the quilt. I think I started doing it this way because I had a 10 foot frame at first and could not turn the larger quilts on that frame....now that I have a 12 foot frame, I could on the size quilts I make.

Mindless, I think my friend's frame was a Grace, white enameled metal bars. The 2" wide tape was plenty to hold the fabric, I'd tear about 6-8" chunks and carefully line up the straight edge of my fabric to the little dip in the bar. It was fast, you could reuse/reposition the tape if you wanted (I usually didn't bother and a big ball would end up in the trash) and no safety pins or basting! One large roll may seem expensive but I think we did at least 20 quilts that year with that one roll of tape. It also left no discernible residue, but I typically wiped off the bars in my clean up procedures.