Originally Posted by catmcclure
Originally Posted by snipper74
I was just hand sewing the underside of the binding on my first quilt when I noticed that there is a 1 1/2 inch gap between my sashing and the border. The quilt is already professionally quilted which means that I can't get 'inside' to sew the seam. I tried overcasting the seam and it looked so awful that I ripped it out. Any ideas about how I can correct this error. In the future, I'll examine my work much more carefully before quilting or having it quilted. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Check out instructions on how to do a "blind seam". It's very similar to the stitch you do to put binding on a quilt. Shouldn't be too much of a problem to do a small area.
Here's one:
http://quilttaffy.blogspot.com/2008/...-tutorial.html
Thanks, this was very helpful!