Squaring up a quilt back before you place the fabric on the frame lessens headaches later on!
* Make sure all the wrinkles are pressed out of your backing fabric.
**Fold your backing in half, selvedge edges together . Smooth it out so that the fold is nice and flat and there are no wrinkles.
***Continue to fold your backing in half and smoothing the fabric of any wrinkles until you get a width that is small enough to fit your cutting mat.
**** Place your cutting mat under a non-selvedge end of your folded backing, and using your ruler and rotary cutter, make a nice straight cut to even up the edges. Repeat for the other end.
*** Now the raw edges are trimmed do the same for the selvedges
*** After squaring your backing, measure it again to make sure that it is a total of 8 inches larger than your quilt. You want to make sure you have excess so that you have wiggle room to attach the quilt to the top leader and once fully quilted you will not be short at the distal end. This is a common mistake for newbies the first time they use a frame, unknowingly realizing that as the quilt rolls onto the poles of the frame, the top and back rolls at different rates causing the backing to be short if there was no planned excess.
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