I've finished the quilting on Anita's Arrows and taken it off the frame. I'm pretty happy with the quilting. Some of it is free motion. I'm able to do the vine/leaf/curlique quite easily. For the ditch work I use a Line Tamer ruler, and for the even curves in the petals in the four-patch blocks I use a semi-circular ruler. I've gotten much better about not wandering off the rulers.
Now I'm worrying about the binding. You can see from this photo that the quilt is not square. I had to choose between keeping the points on the border squares and making the quilt square. Since I'm addicted to points, I went with the uneven edge.
However, to get 1/4 inch for the seam at each point, I have a tiny margin for the seam between the points. The quilting pulled the top in between the points, so I will have (I hope) 1/8 inch of the top with 1/4 inch of batting and backing in the seam. I've got the binding cut, but I'm expecting real trouble sewing it on.
I love your quilt! And I don't see the waves so they must not be too bad. The last time I ran into a quilt that I couldn't square up (it was quite visible, too), I scalloped the edges to disguise it. A gentle curve into each light square would do the trick without being difficult to bind with a bias binding. Straight grain binding might work if the curves are very shallow. You could use a plate as a template. You don't want to dip into your quilting. Otherwise, baste those skimpy seam allowances down with an overcast stitch before binding to help with raveling in the wash. Dewey is one lucky cat.
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