Saltwater Quilts: Tutorial: Mitered Corners. A mitered corner may look complicated, but it is actually really easy.
It can be added as a border to just about any center design to spruce up your quilt or thrown into your overall quilt design. There are a few examples at the end of the tutorial. Calculations Width of Border Fabric: Choose the width of your border. The Length of the Border Fabric: Quilting for Absolute Beginners - Adding borders correctly. Ann Seely - How to Measure for a Mitered Border. Border Hints and Tricks. Quiltville Custom Border Hints & Tricks!
Avoiding the wave and ripple!.. (Click here for printer-friendly version) Lessons in How NOT to create a quilting nightmare! :c) Believe me, this will NOT quilt out! THIS was a quilting nightmare! It's not really a trick..I've always thought of it as a *cheat*...because I don't use measuring tapes or rulers.. Www.shopmartingale.com/images/marketing/howtoquilt/quilt-borders.pdf. Calculations & Formulas for Quilt Bindings, Backings and Borders. Being able to calculate yardages for quilting borders, backs and bindings allows you to more effectively use the fabrics you have on hand for your projects as well as let you decide on amounts to purchase when you find those fabrics you absolutely love.
Most quilt patterns provide yardage needed for borders, backing and binding, however, when sewing your own projects, you’ll need to do a little math to determine the yardages you should purchase to complete your quilt top. Borders: Figuring yardage for borders involves just a couple of simple steps. Step 1: First, measure your completed quilt center. If you are adding 5″ borders, cut three strips of fabric 5″ x width of fabric. Step 2: Mitering borders on quilts: tutorial.
“Side-by-Side Hearts” quilt border from The Border Workbook Your quilt top is done and it’s time to add borders.
It’s the beginning of the end! But deciding how to border a quilt can be a challenge. From simple to showy, there are as many choices for quilt borders as there are quilt blocks. So many choices, in fact, that many quilters lose steam at this stage of the quiltmaking process. But borders don’t have to be a chore, and they certainly don’t have to be boring. Example from Simple Style. Making Curved Quilt Borders with Karen Charles. Beyond basic borders, day 3: design your own! (+ sale) Today we wrap up this week’s posts about fun quilt-border ideas.
Centering Designs in Prairie Points. A Timeless Charm To Any Quilt With Scrappy Quilt Borders! I love finding new ways to use my scraps, and have done my fair share of scrap quilting.
But, have you ever though of using scraps as a border for on of your favorite quilts or quilt blocks? You can have fun using those wonderful scraps by creating delightful scrappy quilt borders for quilts of all styles and sizes. Photo via A Quilting Life Most quilters end up collecting an abundance of scraps left over from various projects and then wonder about the best way to use them.
Quilting How to Attach Borders. Surrounding the Bear. How to Make Perfect Mitered Corners. How to Measure for a Mitered Border. American Quilter's Society - Serendipity Pattern. Breaking the border-cutting "rules" American Quilter magazine pattern editor Marje Rhine shares her views on cutting fabric borders: “Quilters are usually taught to cut quilt borders parallel to the selvage.
There are a couple of good reasons for this. First, there is less stretch in the fabric parallel to the selvage so less likelihood of wavy borders. Second, the borders would not need to be pieced with adequate yardage. But we all know there are no quilt police and there are good reasons to occasionally break the quilting ‘rules.’ For example, here is a large-scale print I want to use as the outside border for my quilt. For the next figure, I have superimposed cutting lines on the fabric to show the difference in the appearance of the borders after the fabric is cut. See the difference in these quilt mock-ups below. Don’t be afraid to break the rules if, in the end, you like the quilt better.”
Pinning for Better Borders This tip was contributed by Marje Rhine, pattern editor for American Quilter magazine.
I have used a similar technique for many years when pinning together the two sections of Drunkard’s Path blocks. “Most quilters know to measure through the center of the quilt and then cut borders to fit before stitching them on. But how you pin your borders also can make a big difference in the quilt’s appearance. In this example I measured, cut and then pinned the border to the quilt, easing as necessary.
The ends of the border at the seam fit perfectly so I expected a perfect result. Photo 1. Framed! Quilt Border Ideas. Borders are the frames that surround and set off our quilt designs.
Finding the perfect border idea can make the difference between a regular quilt and a quilt with maximum impact. Of course, sometimes the simplest border, or even no border at all, is the perfect addition to a quilt center. Here are some quilt border ideas to get you started. Borderless designs First of all, consider the fact that your quilt may not need a border.