How not to assemble a quilt: Find a nice large, clean, quiet place to work. Lay out the back, wrong side up, ease all the wrinkles out, tape edges. Lay batting on top, discover it is short on one side. Read size on bag and see that quilt is square and batting is rectangular. Remember that you knew that and had planned to add a scrap piece of batting to make it square. After wasting almost an hour, say appropriate 4-letter swear words like drat, crud, and pooh, pick up your project, and go home.
How to assemble a quilt: In a large, clean quiet place to work, get a friend (like Duane) to help you lay out the back, wrong side up. Have friend hand you pieces of tape while you smooth and tape edges. With friend, lay out adjusted batting on top of back,
and stretch quilt top on top. Do all this in about 15 minutes with friend.
Pin with lots of pins to keep fabric from moving when quilting. Use lots and lots of pins. (With a friend this will take some time. Alone it takes about 2 hours). Get bored and have sore muscles. When finally pinned, pick up quilt and go home. Put it away and ignore it for the rest of the day.
Now to decide how to quilt it.
Louise and Duane
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