Multiple quilt borders

Have you ever gotten your quilt blocks all pieced together and then been totally stumped on what to do for the borders? Me too! Haha! I will show you what I came up with and maybe it will inspire some creative ideas in you too!Last week, I was working on my first Dresden Plate quilt (you can see that post here). I did some different kind of block arrangements that are whimsical and maybe a little artsy… So when I got to the border I had to pause (but not for long because this quilt had to be…

Wavy borders on a quilt top are no fun! In this article, APQS Dealer and Educator Angela Huffman gives you her expert tips for attaching borders to a quilt top.

You know I love a quick and easy panel quilt, but I refuse call it in and sacrifice design in favor of speed and ease. A Prairie Braid Border is just thing to add a fun, unique touch to a quilt, and yes, it is seriously easy to make!

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Achieve Flat, Smooth Borders Every Time! Do you find yourself rushing through the borders just to have a quilt top done? Don’t. After all the time you’ve put into creating the top, it pays to spend a little extra time to achieve flat, smooth borders. Sherri, from A Quilting Life, has written an excellent article …

Enhance your quilts with creative border ideas! Find patterns, tutorials, and inspiration for adding the perfect finishing touch.

Here's a chart for you to copy if you want a listing of quilt border sizes that are perfectly proportioned. You can mix and match these standard sizes as you like to add multiple borders to your quilt. I've made the values quilt-ruler-friendly, so you're not messing around with too-strange fractions. It doesn't matter if you cut this size or if you add seam allowances, as long as you do the same thing for all borders. This is based on the Fibonacci series of numbers, which actually goes like…

With a ton of things to do before the end of the year I got distracted yet again! I saw the "Quilt as you go Hexagon" tutorial from Missouri Star Quilt Co. (here) and realized that this was my kind of hexie! Paper piecing and little hexies scare me - but this bigger, faster and easy version seemed like a whole lot of fun. You don't have to buy a template; there are lots of tutorials and videos that show you the same technique using cardboard and different sized units. I did get the one sold…

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

A friend recently shared that one of her quilting goals for 2021 is to master the mitered borders. I have found that making multiple mitered borders is just as easy as a single border, so I thought…