Help!! How do you prepare a 106 inch wide fabric for your backing??
I bought a 106 inch batik wide backing to use for one of my quilts. I am struggling to figure out the best way to prepare it. My quilt is 76 inches square so I want to have a piece that is around 85 inches square. My 106 backing is around 92 inches long.
So, what are your steps?
Do you press out of the fold wrinkles/lines, then try to square it up, then cut it down to the size you need?
It is such a large piece of fabric, I can't figure out how I can maneuver it to be able to square it up (holding it by the selvage edges, let it drop and move the edges back and forth a bit until the fabric drapes relatively straight).
If the fabric doesn't look too far "out of whack", would you just cut off the selvage and then cut down the piece to the size you need then press out the hard fold wrinkles?
Am I overthinking this?? It just seems so hard.