Tips
Here are a few tips so that your quilt is ready for quilting:
Your backing fabric MUST be 4-5 inches bigger on all sides than your quilt top, or 8-10 inches bigger than the measurement of your quilt top. (This is for pinning and clamping it to the machine. Refer to picture at the right.>>>>>)
Your backing fabric should be free of any borders or pieced blocks. It can be pieced with all the same fabric.
All seams in the quilt top should be properly ironed.
Please do not serge the outer edges of the quilt because it causes stretching.
Note: I am not able to quilt any top that is more than 110” wide. If the top is wider than 110” it will not fit in the quilt frame. The length does not matter.
This is why the backing needs to be bigger than the quilt top.
“Quilting is like painting
with needle and thread.”