Quilting ideas for borders

Are you ready to learn how to do a mitered border for your quilts? It is really not that hard and this tutorial from Amy of Amy’s Creative Side shows you how to do it. With a video, step-by-…

Sew'n Wild Oaks Quilting Blog: Patchwork Math Class Was In Session

Petit Design Co has done a 31 day series on quilting with a walking foot.........think it is just straight lines? NOPE - she includes curves. There are some great ideas applicable to quilting on a longarm as well. Click here to visit the landing page with links to the 31 days......

Join Julie Plotniko for step 4 of a wholecloth walking foot quilt as she uses SCHMETZ needles and Gütermann thread and a UNIQUE marker to create complex looking border designs that can be stitched with ease. Free pattern and tutorial.

Pretty fabulous corner quilting on this piece by Megan Bohr of Canoe Ridge Creations.

Two easy quilt borders | Sewn up, TeresaDownUnder | Bloglovin’

Hello Everyone, Today I'm going to show you how to make this ribbon border which will be framing my Peek-a-Boo Pumpkins. I started by making 32 (HST) half-square triangles. I make my HST eight at a time using an easy method. You can watch this method by clicking HERE and viewing my video on The Quilt Show. There is a lot of information in my Patchwork Math videos. To soak it all in, you can watch them over and over again for free! Now that I've trimmed my HST to the correct size using a…

Five years ago I started adding ideas for backing a quilt to my site. Fun things to do with the leftover fabric from making a quilt, to in...

Learn to make an easy no math Prairie Braid Quilt Border perfect for panel quilts | Video Tutorial

Aside from playing around with EQ, this is what I’ve been working on. I need 4 long strips like this for one of the pieced borders for Scrappy Star. At this point, it seems like an endless bi…

As a quilter, it’s always a good idea to have quilting designs in your arsenal of go-to techniques…especially if you’re quilting for others. Here are our five most popular border design tutorials… More

Learn how to sew mitered corners for quilt borders step by step. While it's a challenging border to create, the angled seam is well worth the effort!

Quilt Borders

Heather Thomas presents some fun quilt border ideas as well as teaches you how to create a quilt border that isn’t straight edged.

Find out the 3 Different Ways to Add Borders to a Quilt Panel through this Quilting Tutorial. Jenny demonstrates three different ways to make a beautiful quilt by adding a border to a panel. Learn how to make a fence rail border, an offset rectangle "brick" border, and a pinwheel border. Follow Missouri Star Quilt Co. for more Sewing Tutorials!

MITERED BORDERS Here is one of my favorite ways to border a quilt, especially if I have multiple borders, or want the print or stripe to "turn the corner" and frame the quilt, like a picture frame! In this technique, the border strips are first sewn together and measured, the mitered angles are pre-cut, and then the borders are stitched to the quilt. This "cut first" method of adding Mitered Borders creates even, accurate borders that lie flat every time! BORDER STRIP SETS I'm making a quilt…

Wondering how to make better Quilt Borders? Click here now to read all the tips featured by top US quilting blog, A Quilting Life!!

I am delighted to have Patsy Thompson as our December FMQ Expert, for the 2012 Free Motion Quilting Challenge. Whe...