I found some extra wide backing fabric for my mystery quilt. Quilt is 50" square, fabric 108" - perfect. One metre, cut in half, two pieces 54" wide joined together, a good 2" to play with each side and a decent bit of spare fabric for something else.
When I sandwiched the quilt I found that it must have been a bit of a fantasy 108" because I only had about 3/4" each side. I wasn't too bothered as I wasn't intending doing a lot of squiggly, dense quilting.
It's all going swimmingly, just one side left to quilt when I noticed the information strip along the selvedge - except that it's not on the selvedge! It's a *****ing great 1/2" wide, 15" long white strip (on dark fabric naturally) that extends 1 1/4" into the body of the fabric. Inevitably, that is the edge that the top drifted towards during the sandwiching process. Is it going to be covered by the binding? Of course it *****ing well isn't.
I was going to cut a strip off and sew on a new bit but that required taking out part of some of the quilting lines - I wouldn't have been happy with it anyway. So, I've finished the quilting and now have to come up with a creative way of dealing with it. I think I'll let it simmer for a couple of hours.