Playing Chicken

I basted the bottom of the quilt as closely as I could to the Red Snappers, then removed said Snappers -- and there's enough backing. Now to trim off the batting a bit so I can see what I'm doing, and then I'll pin the backing to the lower leader, re-baste the edge, and then remove the first row of basting, which wound up smack-dab in the middle of the last border. I think what happened is that the intense quilting ate up more backing than expected! I had plenty of fabric to give myself a little more leeway, but thought I had it long enough. This is gonna work, though. 😬

Nothing like playing chicken with your backing and not even knowing it!