Mitered Corner Borders
 

Any words of advice or favourite videos?

I'm only doing the border 1 1/2" wide, so that it will look like a frame around the wall hanging when I'm done. Then I'll do a facing. But I want the miter because that's the type of corner that frames have.

Watson

The gourmetquilter has videos on the mitered borders.

before there were search engines i figured it out on my own ...but with the web now a good search engine savesa lot of fabric waste :thumbup: ..below page has lots & lots of links to blog & video tutorials ..good luck, it's quite easy once you do a couple of corners ..and like you ..i wanted to do a frame on a small quilt that looked like a picture frame.

http://www.zapmeta.com/?vid=l6723722...+quilt+borders

I haven't used a tutorial, but I lay it out, overlap the pieces, fold the top one 45 degrees, press. then I glue baste, press, pin and sew it on the fold line. After I'm sure it lays ok, then I cut off the extra beyond the seam allowance.

In addition to this, I check the miter to make sure it is square to the borders.

One of our members, Pittsburgh Pam posted a great tute on how she does them. It is a shame she doesn't participate anymore. She was an awesome resource:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/tutoria...rs-t21057.html

The others have given you some great links.

I'll add a piece of advice. If you plan on having two borders (inner and outer), sew them together first then miter them as a unit.

Thanks, everyone.
The GourmetQuilter video that MadQuilter suggested was really good and I managed to get 3 out of 4 corners done really well. The other corner has a pucker, but you know what they say about a man on a galloping horse!

Watson

I love your miter corners. I am going to try your way tonight.
Thank you so much.

Yes, this is how I do mine and they turn out beautiful!