nuevaquilter

Thank you, carolaiken, for asking this question, and thanks to all the rest for your detailed and very helpful responses. I have procrastinated taking my BIG quilt to a longarmer because I couldn't deal with snipping all those little threads. The quilt is fairly dark (blocks from a Civil War block swap); now I know that I don't need to make the back "perfect" (as if!). You ladies are great.