Pinned

Finished pinning this thing, and thought I'd share my final pin-around that has been very helpful:

I roll the excess backing and batting toward the front and pin it close to the raw edge of the top. This keeps the batting from shedding all over my work as it gets wrestled under the needle and around the table, and the excess backing doesn't accidentally get folded under and inadvertently stitched into the quilting.

Had to take this shot before moving this to the quilting table:

Label inserted, as mentioned in a previous post

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