Cut 2 border strips 2½” x 30½”. I'm going to tell you how to fix that! However, if I'm doing an "L shape" border (adding strips to top/bottom and sides) vs. a mitered border before adding a binding, I add the shortest sides first, then add the longest sides last. Today I'd like to share my method for adding a flange border to the outside edges of a quilt. I make a mark on the wrong side that is about 4" from the end and them I make marks that are 20 1/8" apart. Adding a flange is really easy. Lay out your quilt top and decide what kind of border or borders you will sew onto your quilt top. At this point, a lot of people like to turn the binding over the sides and hold it down with little clips. For length: Measure one side of your block and see how tall it is. Repeat to sew border strip to opposite edge. Should your border be wavy even if you do everything you can to prevent it, blocking could save the day. The Godstone Grannies hexagon quilt - attaching a border to a hexagon quilt. The quilt won't lie completely flat no matter what you do. If you’ve squared the blocks, and put the borders on properly then the quilt should be fairly square, and the trimming techniques used in these tutorials will give you excellent results. Tape the rest of the border down until the quilt lies flat. (#6) There was no need to push and pull on the quilt. Attaching the binding. Nest the seams together as in previous picture and put in lots of pins. Measure the corners, squaring them up to 90 degrees and taping them in place. Mar 2, 2015 - So how do you finish the edges of a hexagon quilt? It is very important to not have friendly borders. That happens as you are assembling the quilt and attaching the borders. I’ll let you read that query for yourself on The Hexie Blog. I sewed around the very edge of the dark border using a dark thread. If borders are not attached correctly, you may find the edges are wavy and do not lay flat. We're going to add strips to both sides of the quilt block first, and then add strips to the top and bottom to complete the border. How to Attach Quilt Borders. Middle and quarter marks in black: Step 6 - Pin. Pin a border strip to quilt center edge, matching the center marks and allowing excess border strip to extend beyond the corner edges. Now the fun thing about this is– your quilt label can be simple fabric with folded edges (kind of boring!) Attaching the Side Strips for the Border. Measure the four edges of your quilt and cut enough 1"-wide strips to go all the way around, with a good half yard extra. I am pretty sure you can dig through your pile of unfinished quilts or projects and find a finished block that was never finished into a quilt. A quilt is essentially a "sandwich" comprised of three pieces: the top, the backing and the batting in the middle, which are fused together by tying the three pieces in place, by machine quilting or by traditional hand quilting. One of the last jobs to complete when you’re making a quilt is to add the border strips. If there is more than 1/2” difference, square the top again, or look for problems in the piecing that need to be fixed before adding the border. One of the beauties of the Cathedral Windows pattern is that when you're done, you're done--and with a finished edge. But a border can also detract from the quilt if it's too big or too busy. If the outer border of your quilt is a pieced border, be sure to stay-stitch using a 1/8″ seam around all of the edges of your quilt. Don [t be in too big a hurry to finish your quilt by slapping on borders. First off, a ruffled border does not have to be cut on the bias. In other words, in the example above, you would mark the border strip 5 1/4" from each end. Attaching borders to your quilt is an important part of finishing your quilt top. Use a ruler to mark your stitching line. Notice how the pin is still in the front side of the miter, holding everything in place while you are stitching. Bring the needle up inside the point as shown and do a couple of tacking stitches. Two seams will nest together, the border to quilt seam and the border to border seam. ioleen kimmel on December 15, 2016 at 9:35 am Great post, thanks for sharing. Finish attaching the binding to the quilt back. Pin in place then sew to the top and bottom edges of the panel. It is just so much easier to quilt a well pieced quilt and flat border!! See this post on proper pressing here. Those ruffles will add a wonderful whimsical touch to the finished piece. 19 mai 2018 - Explorez le tableau « Bordure de courtepointe - Quilt border » de Courtepointe Québec, auquel 271 utilisateurs de Pinterest sont abonnés. Now that the binding is in place on the quilt back, it’s time to attach it to the front. Attaching a border to a quilt isn't as simple as it seems. In the table runner above, I wanted to add a little more red around the outside and the flange was just what I needed. The piece now measures 30½” x 45½” so it will be easy to add a border of 5″ (finished) squares. The measured border quilt is 16 1/4 inches square, just as it should be (after the 1/4 inch seam). Fold both the quilt top and the border strips in half again, marking quarter marks. Do you need to make a quilt bigger but don't have enough blocks to increase the size, then that's another good time for a border. Attach the quilt backing to your work surface with painter's tape. If the border will enhance the look of the quilt by either "framing" it, or giving your eye a place to rest, then yes a border is a good thing. Doing this ensures the quilt will be square when the extra bits are removed. Attach binding to front of quilt. I pin well. Seam allowance pressed towards border. But, the slap and sew quilt is 16 3/4!! I am using the Layer Cake Lemonade from Fat Quarter Shop quilt top I demo-ed in this post. I hope you found this method for attaching borders helpful. To prep the quilt for hand sewing the back,simply press the binding out from the front side of the quilt. And this is just one block. Turn the quilt over so the back side is facing up and stitch to the miter as shown. They get in my way. This will be the length of the strips you'll cut. After sewing a border, have you ever noticed that the outer edges of your quilt are wavy? A good rule of thumb is to have marks no more than 18" apart. If the quilt and borders are long, keep folding and marking to achieve the spacing, and enough marks for matching. If you have more than one border (as on my quilt here), you will need to go through the same steps for each border you attach. Remove the quilt binding, and lay the quilt out flat on a hard surface. Note: this is just the way I do it, you may have your own method of doing this. Recently I had to put pleats in a quilt border to take up two inches in the middle as well as offsetting the corners and easing in a lot of fullness. (#3 & #4) Using my hands on both sides of the dark stripe, I slowly went all around the edge. Attaching Borders to Your Quilt You have worked diligently on all your blocks and are ready to add borders. I like this method because you can watch where you are stitching and it leaves the quilt front looking tidy and neat. Smooth the backing out completely so there are no wrinkles, folds, or puckers in the fabric. With this method, not only will your borders fit and lie flat, it will also help square up the top if it got a little wonky when piecing the blocks. Fold your quilt onto itself at the corner. Sew together, beginning and ending the seam 1/4" from the quilt center's corners (be sure to backstitch at the beginning and the end). Friendly borders wave to you and having them on your quilt top is about the only time you do not want to see a friendly wave. There are a few things to keep in mind when you plan your border; you’ll need to consider how you’ll finish the ruffled edge and when to add the border for best results. When I want just an accent of color without adding another border, I like to add a flange to my quilt top. If you are using a quilting ruler, you can gently pull the quilt into position so that the seams line up with the ruler marks. Although the border seams looks flat and tidy, the raw edges of the quilt have waves of fabric, also called "fullness." It’s not my favorite part of the process but I’ve learned to do it so that I have good results. An easy way to keep your cutting straight is to line up one of the lines on your ruler with a sewing line, for example, where the border attaches to the main part of the quilt. Square off the quilt. It took me a minute to get over the shock that you're attaching a border to a Cathedral Windows quilt. Press seams toward border. Once again press the seams towards the border strip. Finished top with flat borders! There are loads of ways. Work on one corner at a time. It’s super cold here as well, but leaving for warmer climes in a couple of days. or it can be something fun and unexpected- like a quilt block. Press the seams towards the border strip. Sometimes a quilt will have just one border, and other times a quilt will have multiple borders of different widths. I start with the side strips. Lay quilt top on a large surface or on the floor and measure your quilt in three places through the center of your top, average these numbers and cut the borders this length. Sew with the quilt border on the bottom so you can make sure quilt seams don’t get flipped in the wrong direction. Make Quilt Borders. Today the author of that blog, Julia Wood, posted a question from one of her readers about adding border strips to a hexagon quilt. Watch the video clip below to see these steps in action. Attaching borders to form mitered corners is a little bit different. Re: Attaching a border I would think it personal preference as to how you want your quilt to look. In fact most of my quilting buddies do this, but I feel the same way about binding clips as I do about pins. You absolutely can add a ruffled border to your baby quilt! To make this easy from this point forward, I am going to refer to a quilt block and a border in the process, but a flange can go on a pieced top or along the binding also. For width: Keep in mind that you will lose 1/4 inch on both sides of the quilt border. Lay your backing on a large, flat surface, so the printed side is face-down and the wrong side is face-up. This article will explain how to make quilt borders. You can see now, how you will end up with problems. I like to start with a strip of fabric that is 3/4″ to 7/8″ wide. But remember, if it’s a bit off, hardly anyone is going to notice except you. For example, this quilt had a border with a finished size of 2.75″, so the quilt was trimmed 3″ from the seam line. I place the border on my quilt top with wrong sides up and I line up the marks on the border with the diamonds making sure that the border overlaps the innermost hexagon on the seam allowance. Wavy borders are caused by extra fabric in the borders. Wavy borders may cause tucks and/or puckers when quilted. There are loads of ways. Press carefully–but don’t press so aggressively that you add a “wave” into your border. Remove batting from its packaging and allow it to relax and plump up for a couple of hours. You begin by sewing all four borders on the quilt. Do this by placing a long ruler at the edge of the border or quilt top. Written by Diane Harris on September 8, 2017.Posted in Blog, How-tos and Ideas. 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