Originally Posted by
ghostrider
A good book to take a look at if you're intereested in showing quilts, both from the actual quilting side and from the showing side, is Karen McTavish's Quilting for Show: A Practical Guide to Successful Competition Quilting. It covers binding, sleeves, burying threads, blocking, trimming, what judges want, what their comments mean, many quilting tips, plus a lot more. It comes with a DVD as well.
Additionally, on the video, she shows how she preps a quilt. She at least wet it, or possibly washed it, and pins it while still damp to styrofoam board to finish drying at the size she wants. (Blocking, I assume) You see her actually crawling around on the floor in the video!
