HOW TO ENLARGE A FINISHED QUILT

There's no way to make it easy.  There's hard, and harder.  Since I had just finished - and LOVED - my quilt, I had to think long and hard before I basically tore it to pieces.

Part of me said to keep it as it is.  The other part of me insists on having a quilt cover my feet, and my feet were not happy campers.

I'm also not very handy with a measuring tape.  Measure twice, cut once, never worked for me.

So I laid it on the floor, eyeballed where I wanted to slice:  sliced.....then decided I should run to the fabric store and buy a few yards of a coordinating design.

Well, a "few" yards turned into a few MORE yards because, like I said, Measure twice, cut once, never worked for me.

I cut the coordinating fabric, front and back.

I then laid padding between the fabric strips, allowing one full inch of top and bottom fabric to extend past the padding.

I then began quilting each strip, because once it became part of the enlarged quilt, it would never fit inside my home sewing machine.

Once each strip was quilted, I pinned it to the master quilt, making sure I had a full 1/4" of fold, (top and bottom), making a bias/type of edge to sew in a zig-zag pattern for added strength.

When it was finished, my back hurt, and I decided I would never, ever, RE-make a quilt again.  Let my feet hand out and freeze.  I don't care.