Edge to edge quilting

A quilting blog

While the designs in the center of your quilt often take center stage, your quilt borders deserve some love, too! Here are five of our most popular border design tutorials for you to try.

Quilt borders do not need to be boring. After the simple steps of adding a quilt border, we'll explore quilt border ideas beyond the simple corner blocks, or simple border. Next time you finish the center of your quilt, try a new border with great designs. The quilt's border is a great place to add new blocks, your favorite quilting designs and more.

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Learn three essential free motion quilting designs to unlock all the skills you need to master any free motion quilting pattern even if you have never done f...

Bethanne Nemesh | Freemotion Machine Quilting Teacher on Instagram: "Clamshell quilting can be done with a ruler aid, or freehand. I find freehand only fun if the grid of the clamshell is 1” or smaller. Since one edge of my lavender lines ruler has a 1” half circle cutout just for this purpose, I used it in a recent quilt sample. I love it, since there isn’t any marking necessary beyond a base line. Stencils are also a great way to mark a clamshell for quilting. In all these cases…

Have you heard of “quilting in the hoop”? Grab your embroidery machine and see how it can be used to quilt large and small projects.

I like to think of finishing the raw edges of a quilt – to be a little like adding the ribbon to a package wrapped with pretty paper – or the frame on a painting. The project is still pretty – but finishing the raw edges make it complete. Finishing the edges of my quilt is an important part of the quilting process – and I have to confess – it may be my favorite part. There’s more than one way to finish the edges of our quilt. So … how do we choose? Read more ... #Quiltblox #QuiltBinding

Excellent Tutorials for Using Decorative Machine Stitches to Secure Bindings! The beautiful machine embroidery stitch used to secure the binding of a lovely quilt got us to thinking about bindings. The standard approach is to stitch them down by hand or machine, making the stitching as invisible as possible. Some quilters will stitch down a …

Whether you are a seasoned quilter or new to the world of quilting, let's cover some of the basics and get everyone ready to finish those UFO's (unfinished objects) we have kicking around our studios. Check out this 12 Edge-to-Edge Quilting Designs Guide to get started!