Wavy edges
#11
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Woburn, MA
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I don't really know how to help you now but I know how to avoid it in the future. Always measure the 2 sides of the quilt, take the average of the 2 sides, and cut the border to the correct length. Same for the other two sides. By doing this, you should not have those wavy borders.
#12
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Central Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
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Follow dunster's great advice, to measure carefully, and I have the best luck with borders if I sew them on with the border fabric on the bottom, and the quilt center face down on top. The way the feed dogs work, this also helps prevent ripples.
#14
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Central Wisconsin
Posts: 4,391
YOU NEED TO STRETCH THE BINDING. If the borders are just a little too large, that can be corrected by putting a little tug on the binding as you sew it on. I always give a little tug to the binding as it is lain onto the quilt and hold it as I sew it. A length-of-fabric binding can be tugged harder than width-of-fabric. Remember, just a little tug.
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