question about a possible repair
 

Hello... I finally made myself a quilt. And its big! I wanted it to be big. I sent it to be longarmed and she did a great job.... BUT my borders were not so great

One side is really bad - she had to fold the material to get the quilting completed.

What I am thinking is that maybe I can seam rip the quilting on the section of the border and the seam to the body of the quilt Then I can cut some of the material out and make a new seam to remove the extra fabric.

In my mind this seems doable - painful and sad but doable... but I wonder about the quilting and if it will all come undone if I rip some of it out

what do you guys think? Will the quilting all start to come undone if I rip out some of it on the border?

If you rip some of the quilting out, you will have to tie off the ends or, yes, over time it will come undone.

Will it be possible to tie off the ends of the quilting? Or is that something that is difficult to do successfully?

Is the pleat across the whole border area or in a limited spot? Did you already attach the binding?

Would it work to trim down the borders to eliminate the fold/pleat?

If you can post a picture, you may get more responses to solutions.

Was the top wavy before it was sent to the quilter?

Imho, I would not rip anything out. I would find a fine matching thread in the primary color of the backing and with tiny stitches - stitch the fold flat and call it good.

I think this is a better solution.

Depending on what it looks like - this is what I probably would do - most people do not look that carefully at borders, anyway.

I also agree. If it is for you personally I wouldn't worry about it. You probably won't even notice after stitching flat.

Me three. Either way you do it, you'll have a seam there. You might as well take the easy option and do it as Eparys describes, rather than ripping the quilting out, re-doing the seam, re-doing the quilting, and trying to tie off all the cut ends.

This is a Leah Day video on how to tie off the threads. There is another way that you use a regular needle with double thread, but I became impatient looking for it. You might find it. I could not get the search engine to distinguish between tying a quilt (as opposed to quilting it) and tying off quilt thread ends .

bkay