It's a beautiful quilt. Did you measure the sides before you added borders? Is the border the problem or is the body of the quilt wider at the bottom? I would probably take the borders off and redo them if it's the borders and not the body. Anyway, I know you'll figure out what you are willing to do. The LQS tells me to measure and cut my borders and make the body fit to it. I don't always do that but it's a good plan usually. Good Luck.... It's beautiful and your dd will love it no matter what the measurements are.

Try wetting only the larger edge with water. Let dry and this should shrink the edge hopefully enough. You can do this by spraying the edge heavily with water. Also be sure you ease the extra on the top INTO the border. Remember to take the measurement in the center not on the edge. Looks like maybe some of the HST edges got stretched. Good Luck!

If I could make a quilt that pretty---I wouldn't care! It's beautiful.

It's a lovely quilt -

The above suggestion is a good one - Maybe start measuring at the center and several other places between the borders - and find an 'average' measurement?

Then when/where something really got off, you could start making adjustments at that point.

Three inches off would bother me, too.

I'd go ahead and just finish it. On a bed, it won't even be noticed.

It's a beautiful quilt. I feel your pain. Good luck.

I agree with the others who say to measure in different places and find the average for what your borders would be. Make sure your borders are those measurements. You may have to take in some of the seams a little to get them to fit. I've also basted the edges of a quilt and eased the stitches to make the quilt fit the borders.
And, I also agree that if the quilt is going on the bed and not the wall, no one is going to notice!!!
That is a beautiful quilt!

I did not measure the center before adding the borders thus making sure the sided were equal before adding the borders... i will be measuring the center from top to bottom center, left and right vertically and horizontally and then cutting the borders to match. Also, I used the selvage which is always woven tighter and can cause this type of problem so I will be cutting that off too.... lots of errors because I was rushing to meet a deadline ;(..... oh well... I'll post pics of a properly squared quilt when I get it fixed and finished.
DD arrived last night and has seen it... Loves it and said she'd like to have it on her bed at Christmas :D.... I think I can get it done by then... we'll be going to the quilter tomorrow to chose quilting design.
Thank you for all your encouragement and suggestions.

I think the quilt if beautiful and anyone who doe not quilt, would never notice the difference. don't try to make it perfect; just make it and let someone enjoy it. It's really lovely.

When adding borders ALWAYS make sides of quilt fit the border instead of the border fitting the quilt. This may mean that you will have to "ease" the quilt top into the border. Do this by matching the center and 1/4 measure of both top and bottom and then easing equally as needed. Also it may help to put the smaller side down as the feed dogs will sometimes stretch the bottom fabric.