Did you ask the LAer for a suggestion on the best way to take care of the problem. She may be your best source.

Yes, I had to do that recently on a t-shirt quilt. No amount of ripping and resewing would flatten that border.

Hey there... thank you so much for your replies and thoughts. My long armer thinks that I can leave this as they are. BUT this really bothers me

The problem that I had was the size of the quilt. I wanted a good size quilt and I don't have a floor big enough in my house to really spread it out and get to work on it very well. That being said the borders were probably messed up before I dropped it off to be quilted

There is no waviness through out the quilt.. just the borders are a mess. Its actually just 2 sides. The left side is not so bad and I could probably live with how that is. But the right side is a real mess. I have attached some pictures

I did watch the Leah Day video and she makes it look possible ha ha

Have you washed the quilt? Sometimes when it crinkles up a little bit, things just disappear. It's worth a try.

The one time I had a wavy border, I actually put a pleat in my extra fabric and used the long arm to stitch over the pleat, maintaining the pantograph pattern. After the quilt was washed, you couldn't find it.

I don't know how I have been that lucky, because I don't do all that measuring 3 times, averaging bit. I do stretch my borders, just a very little bit, so they don't end up too loose.

It almost looks like the border got "wrinkled" or "wadded" or pulled off-kilter somehow. Or that the quilter just put it on "auto-quilt" and walked away while that part was being stitched and the fabric shifted. It would bother me, too - a lot!

I was thinking that the puffiness would be able to "fold out and stitch down" - not from those pictures.

The only thing I can think of that might work - and would be a Problem In The Area - would be to unstitch all that quilting on the border - lay out the quilt on something flat - and then pleat out the fullness and stitch it down yourself - so it would look like a seam line when it it stitched - and have the borders requilted.

Thanks everyone. I think a washing will resolve the one side issues, they are not that bad.

I think I am going to try to pick out the quilting and then work on the extra fabric. But I do like the idea of trying to fold the extra fabric instead of cutting and making a new seam.

I am going to set this aside for now.... maybe Thanksgiving weekend I will have the courage to work on it. While everyone else is shopping I can be ripping out the quilting ha ha