All Around the Edge

Oh ho ho, you thought you'd seen the last of the Lupine Mystery quilt, well, nope. As I was taking it down from the design wall I noticed an issue. Many of the seams that joined the Flying Geese double units had come undone along the outer edge of the quilt top. So, I took the time to go all the way around the outside of the quilt top and re-sewed all those little bits of seams. All the handling of the heavy quilt top as you sew that final border on is too much stress for those seams to hold up. 

I think a good addition to the directions for making that border would be to pre-stay-stitch along the purple Flying Geese. Because this is what ends up being the outer edge of the quilt. Or maybe just to emphasize the big need to either make sure you back stitch or lock stitch at the end of that seam. An easier choice would have been to add a small purple border around the whole thing.

Okay, after all of that, I then performed the last step in making a quilt top. I stay-stitched all around the outer edge. That's to help make sure that all of those seams don't pop open as the quilt is being stretched around getting loaded onto the long arm machine.

Now "all" I have left to do is to make the binding, trim all the loose threads, and choose a wide-back backing fabric. And to drop it off at a long-arm quilter to do the quilting.