At this point, a lot of people like to turn the binding over the sides and hold it down with little clips. How to Attach Quilt Borders. 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. 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. Bring the needle up inside the point as shown and do a couple of tacking stitches. But, the slap and sew quilt is 16 3/4!! Notice how the pin is still in the front side of the miter, holding everything in place while you are stitching. The quilt won't lie completely flat no matter what you do. 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. It took me a minute to get over the shock that you're attaching a border to a Cathedral Windows quilt. Note: this is just the way I do it, you may have your own method of doing this. It’s super cold here as well, but leaving for warmer climes in a couple of days. Attach the quilt backing to your work surface with painter's tape. Now that the binding is in place on the quilt back, it’s time to attach it to the front. ioleen kimmel on December 15, 2016 at 9:35 am Great post, thanks for sharing. Nest the seams together as in previous picture and put in lots of pins. 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. Turn the quilt over so the back side is facing up and stitch to the miter as shown. Finished top with flat borders! Sew with the quilt border on the bottom so you can make sure quilt seams don’t get flipped in the wrong direction. One of the beauties of the Cathedral Windows pattern is that when you're done, you're done--and with a finished edge. Repeat to sew border strip to opposite edge. Remove batting from its packaging and allow it to relax and plump up for a couple of hours. Do this by placing a long ruler at the edge of the border or quilt top. Smooth the backing out completely so there are no wrinkles, folds, or puckers in the fabric. Re: Attaching a border I would think it personal preference as to how you want your quilt to look. One reason extra fabric may end up in the borders is not measuring the quilt top. Should your border be wavy even if you do everything you can to prevent it, blocking could save the day. That happens as you are assembling the quilt and attaching the borders. I am using the Layer Cake Lemonade from Fat Quarter Shop quilt top I demo-ed in this post. When I want just an accent of color without adding another border, I like to add a flange to my quilt top. Wavy borders may cause tucks and/or puckers when quilted. 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. Imagine a lot of blocks at 1/2 inch too much border for each block! In other words, in the example above, you would mark the border strip 5 1/4" from each end. 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. Today I'd like to share my method for adding a flange border to the outside edges of a quilt. The piece now measures 30½” x 45½” so it will be easy to add a border of 5″ (finished) squares. I hope you found this method for attaching borders helpful. 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). For example, this quilt had a border with a finished size of 2.75″, so the quilt was trimmed 3″ from the seam line. Pin in place then sew to the top and bottom edges of the panel. In the table runner above, I wanted to add a little more red around the outside and the flange was just what I needed. Square off the quilt. Attach binding to front of quilt. Make Quilt Borders. 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. On the right side of the block, lay the raw edges of the flange even with the raw edge of the block with the fold of the flange facing the center of the block. Once again press the seams towards the border strip. 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. 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. Tape the rest of the border down until the quilt lies flat. There are loads of ways. Wavy borders are caused by extra fabric in the borders. But remember, if it’s a bit off, hardly anyone is going to notice except you. Those ruffles will add a wonderful whimsical touch to the finished piece. Don [t be in too big a hurry to finish your quilt by slapping on borders. Fold both the quilt top and the border strips in half again, marking quarter marks. 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. This article will explain how to make quilt borders. Measure the corners, squaring them up to 90 degrees and taping them in place. Today the author of that blog, Julia Wood, posted a question from one of her readers about adding border strips to a hexagon quilt. One of the last jobs to complete when you’re making a quilt is to add the border strips. In fact most of my quilting buddies do this, but I feel the same way about binding clips as I do about pins. Two seams will nest together, the border to quilt seam and the border to border seam. After sewing a border, have you ever noticed that the outer edges of your quilt are wavy? It’s not my favorite part of the process but I’ve learned to do it so that I have good results. 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. Attaching a border to a quilt isn't as simple as it seems. Doing this ensures the quilt will be square when the extra bits are removed. Written by Diane Harris on September 8, 2017.Posted in Blog, How-tos and Ideas. 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. To prep the quilt for hand sewing the back,simply press the binding out from the front side of the quilt. This was so that I could hold down the fabric and keep it smooth as I was sewing. You begin by sewing all four borders on the quilt. But a border can also detract from the quilt if it's too big or too busy. Attaching the Side Strips for the Border. 19 mai 2018 - Explorez le tableau « Bordure de courtepointe - Quilt border » de Courtepointe Québec, auquel 271 utilisateurs de Pinterest sont abonnés. The Godstone Grannies hexagon quilt - attaching a border to a hexagon quilt. For length: Measure one side of your block and see how tall it is. You can see now, how you will end up with problems. Remove the quilt binding, and lay the quilt out flat on a hard surface. First off, a ruffled border does not have to be cut on the bias. Finish attaching the binding to the quilt back. Attaching Borders to Your Quilt You have worked diligently on all your blocks and are ready to add borders. You absolutely can add a ruffled border to your baby 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. I'm going to tell you how to fix that! If borders are not attached correctly, you may find the edges are wavy and do not lay flat. Middle and quarter marks in black: Step 6 - Pin. Press carefully–but don’t press so aggressively that you add a “wave” into your border. I start with the side strips. (#3 & #4) Using my hands on both sides of the dark stripe, I slowly went all around the edge. Voir plus d'idées sur … I’ll let you read that query for yourself on The Hexie Blog. Adding a flange is really easy. I used 7/8″ in this example. Watch the video clip below to see these steps in action. I sewed around the very edge of the dark border using a dark thread. Press seams toward border. This will be the length of the strips you'll cut. See this post on proper pressing here. A good rule of thumb is to have marks no more than 18" apart. 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. 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. 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. The measured border quilt is 16 1/4 inches square, just as it should be (after the 1/4 inch seam). 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. 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. I like this method because you can watch where you are stitching and it leaves the quilt front looking tidy and neat. Mar 2, 2015 - So how do you finish the edges of a hexagon quilt? Lay your backing on a large, flat surface, so the printed side is face-down and the wrong side is face-up. Seam allowance pressed towards border. It is just so much easier to quilt a well pieced quilt and flat border!! Cut 2 border strips 2½” x 30½”. And this is just one block. Sometimes a quilt will have just one border, and other times a quilt will have multiple borders of different widths. For width: Keep in mind that you will lose 1/4 inch on both sides of the quilt border. Attaching borders to form mitered corners is a little bit different. 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. They get in my way. or it can be something fun and unexpected- like a quilt block. Attaching borders to your quilt is an important part of finishing your quilt top. (#6) There was no need to push and pull on the quilt. Although the border seams looks flat and tidy, the raw edges of the quilt have waves of fabric, also called "fullness." Pin a border strip to quilt center edge, matching the center marks and allowing excess border strip to extend beyond the corner edges. So how do you finish the edges of a hexagon quilt? Lay out your quilt top and decide what kind of border or borders you will sew onto your quilt top. I like to start with a strip of fabric that is 3/4″ to 7/8″ wide. Use a ruler to mark your stitching line. It is very important to not have friendly borders. 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. Attaching the binding. Press the seams towards the border strip. 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