Sewing borders on quilts

Depending on the quilt design, adding a border is a common last step when completing a quilt top. Toby Lischko shows you how to properly attach quilt borders, including giving tips on squaring quilts and cutting border strips so everything fits together nicely.

Learn how to sew quilt borders with this step-by-step tutorial. Learn how wide quilt borders should be, how to calculate the yardage needed and how to accurately sew borders to your quilt!

Let's talk about joining strips of fabric on the diagonal. This is useful when you are joining pieces of fabric for quilt binding. Joining fabric on the diagonal instead of perpendicular helps to create less bulk in your binding, making it smoother and easier to sew on.

See how to finish binding on a quilt - the easy way!

In this video sewing tutorial I will show you how to sew mitered corners. If you are looking for easy quilt binding corners check out my ideas on how to sew a mitered corner binding and mitered quilt borders.

Learn how to sew simple quilt borders for beginners with this step by step tutorial. It'll show you how to cut, piece and attach a border.

Mary Corcoran demonstrates how to add borders to a quilt top. Visit AnythingButBoring.com for more instructional videos.

Let me show you how to add borders to your quilt the correct way! This will help prevent puckers and tucks in the quilting, and help your quilt to lay flat when it is done. Whether you choose to quilt

Add beautiful borders to your quilts in no time with our quick and easy method!

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How to measure quilt borders the proper way

For years I have looked at “piano key” borders on quilts and thought there was no way. It looked like way too much sewing. But I wanted to widen the quilt top in my last post and I only had some strips left from my stack of fat quarters. So I decided to finally try making a piano key border. It’s a

We are on the last part of the Grand Canal Scrap quilt tutorials - the border. The only thing you need is for your mind to be flexible - you can make those scraps work! These pixs show different fabric but it is exactly how I make these scrap borders. Time to gather your scraps. I like the width of 2.5" since I have a ruler that size. I have done this method with a 1.5" measurement as well. Pick a width that works best with your size scraps. Lay your fabric any which way until you can cut…

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

Handy video from quilt designer Patrick Lose gives you an easy way to make perfect corners when you bind a quilt. #quiltbinding, #quiltingforbeginners

HGTV.com offers tips for folding, attaching and calculating the size of prairie point quilting borders.

an avid sewer & quilter, i am always searching for new ways to add whimsy to my projects --- adding some rick rack to the binding gave it an extra something special!

Ever since sharing my Winsome quilt last week I've received a lot of questions about how I did the scalloped border. I admit that up until this month I was completely intimidated by the idea of scallops, and also a little afraid I'd mess up my quilt. So today I wanted to share a tutorial showing how I created the scalloped border. Are you ready to try it? First of all, here's what we're talking about. See the curved edges on the quilt below? That's a scalloped border. Around the web you can…

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

Nellie | Australian Modern Quilt Designer on Instagram: "Here’s a quick little tip for adding sashing and borders to your blocks and quilt tops. This is the method I often use and it helps keep my quilt tops nice and square. Once you have cut your sashing or border strips to the correct length, pin with the sashing or border on the underside, that way you can watch where your seams are going when piecing them together. First, pin each end, then the middle, then the middle of each side…