Easy Peasy Mitered corners - Perfect every time.....No Measuring required,
Place your intended mitering fabric on the top of your bottom fabric,
1. At the farest side away from the quilt corner of your mitering fabric - where the two fabrics intersect, with your scissors make a tiny snip in your fabrics at that point, snipping both top and bottom fabrics.
2. From the corner point of your quilt (where you will be adding your mitering fabric make a mark on the top and bottom fabrics, or place a pin on both fabrics.
3. Now match up the pin to the snip and leave 1/4 inch from your intended sewing line as seam allowance. Draw a line from the pin to the snip (diagonally on the reverse side of your fabric - this is your sewing line) be certain as you will be cutting off the excess fabric.
4. Check twice before you make your final cut.....therefore, summary of steps
1. place fabric one over the other , at outside corner - cut tiny snip at point of outside intersection where fabrics meet ,
2. insert a pin on fabrics at quilt corner where your seam for mitered corner starts, draw sewing line, from quilt corner to snip on fabrics to be mitered
- this will be your sewing line.
(NOTE: REMEMBER TO leave 1/4 inch AWAY FROM THE DRAWN SEWING LINE - this is your cutting line) When you are starting to sew your seam for your mitered corner , be sure to start 1/4 inch from the edge at the quilt corner of the fabric where you have it attached to your quilt.
then cut off excess fabric...and sew up seam.[ATTACH=CONFIG]547398[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]547399[/ATTACH] I have used this method for 20 years of quilting.