I will never miter corners again!
#21
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: NJ
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Mitered borders can be tricky, but they really do make the quilt look great IMHO. Watch a tutorial and try again on a small piece. Good luck. I want to do them on a wallpaper stripe border, but I've been putting it off for about a year.
#22
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Northern California mountains
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I do them all the time. Once you do them following a good guide, they hare not at all hard. Not every set of instructions, however, says you MUST press and starch or size well before you start. You need to leave slightly more than the border width beyond the stopping point on each side.
My instructions from my wonderful teacher were to 1. sew to 1/4" from the edge on each side. 2. Fold the body of the quilt on the diagonal, so that one border is exactly over the other. 3. Use your 45* mark on your ruler to cut both borders at once, being sure to leave your seam allowance. 4. Pin carefully. 5. Sew from the inside out.
They do get tricky if you want to line up patterns of border prints, so do the basics on the first go.
My instructions from my wonderful teacher were to 1. sew to 1/4" from the edge on each side. 2. Fold the body of the quilt on the diagonal, so that one border is exactly over the other. 3. Use your 45* mark on your ruler to cut both borders at once, being sure to leave your seam allowance. 4. Pin carefully. 5. Sew from the inside out.
They do get tricky if you want to line up patterns of border prints, so do the basics on the first go.
#25
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Fox Valley Wisconsin
Posts: 1,920
Mitered borders are worth the effort...maybe practice on a small piece before adding to a quilt. I don't do them all the time, but there are certain fabrics that they really are necessary...like when using a stripe border. They make a quilt look so "professional"...like a mitered frame on a picture. Keep trying!
#27
Originally Posted by almostfree
I am trying to make this cute "easy" table runner for fall, but these corners are a mess! I am almost in tears! I should have just put binding on it and forgotten the mitered border. Any pointers on mitering corners? :cry:
There wa a post on the QB a few weeks ago but I found it to intense the YouTube is much easier. and you don't cut your corners until after you've mited them. Way Easy!
#28
Originally Posted by QM
My instructions from my wonderful teacher were to 1. sew to 1/4" from the edge on each side. 2. Fold the body of the quilt on the diagonal, so that one border is exactly over the other. 3. Use your 45* mark on your ruler to cut both borders at once, being sure to leave your seam allowance. 4. Pin carefully. 5. Sew from the inside out.
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