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    Louise is offline Senior Member
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    Smile Squaring it up

    Now that i have my quilt top done i know it need to square it up do i do this befroe the boader soit is even all the way around if so how do you do this? I know after the boarder goes on i need to quilt it before the binding can i use a jelly roll sewn together to bind it or does it have to be biased it is going to be a straight edge? Thanks for your help!

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    Sandy Navas's Avatar Sandy Navas is offline Senior Member
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    Default Re: Squaring it up

    Louise - if you have squared your blocks as you do them, before joining individual blocks, you shouldn't need to actually square up the quilt top. How are you going to do the actual quilting? Free motion, or are you sending it out? Do you know for a fact that it isn't square? How far is it off?

    I'm not an expert at that point, but I would sandwich and quilt it and then see if it was still off any. And yes, you can use a jelly roll for binding - given that the jelly roll pieces are about 44 inches long, you will have a couple different patterns on your binding unless you have a whole lot of the same pattern in your roll.

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    Default Re: Squaring it up

    Louise, take a look at the youtube videos on adding borders. You can tell whether the quilt is squared by measuring across the diagonals. Both measurements should be the same. If not, you'll need to block it gently with an iron.

    To add borders, measure through the middle of the quilt in both directions and use those measurements to figure length. If you only measure at the edges you're likely to end up with rippled borders.

    Final squaring is done after quilting and before binding, trimming the edges at the corners by lining interior block seams up with the vertical and horizontal lines in the ruler, preferably a large square ruler. Once the corners are square, use a long ruler to trim the sides in between.

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