I could use some advice.

it is better to have batting inside the binding too. cant imagine how it would be without that. rather floppy, eh. i'm guessing this is a satin binding for a baby, hence the size of it. sounds more like its a finished border as bindings are most often rather smaller than that. no worrys tho.

you need to cut the batting a wee bit bigger for the quilting as well. i'd cut it around 3" bigger than the top all the way round. then trim off the excess after quilting...leaving the 1.5" for the binding to fit over. that excess ought to be enough as its baby quilt. bigger quilts might need more than that added when you cut the batting to allow for the 'shrink-up' from the quilting itself. i hope thats clear, lol. hth, jeanne

Jeanne, thank you so much. You are right it is a finished border (shows you how new I am). I was thinking the same thing you were concerned about, about it being floppy. Hope to get started on the sandwiching this week.

you definitely need batting in the binding, if you have enough fabric for the backing, I'd include that too. I'd initially cut at least 2 inches over where you want the batting to be at the end, so that once it's quilted if anything shifts or is drawn into the quilt, you have some give. Then, when you square up the quilt prior to binding, work out the measurement the batting (and hopefully backing) has to be from the point where the border joins the pieced top and square up with that measurement, then when attaching the binding use the correct measurement in from the squared up edge, rather than 1/4 inch in from the edge of the border, which has likely gained some slight waviness in the quilting process

Cheers

Anne

I don't know which style of binding you were planning to use, Kathy; but I strongly suggest that you don't try to do a mitred one with these measurements. (Just trying to save you grief >gI am ready to put a baby quilt together. It will have an 1 1/2"