I signed in, looking for tips on mitering corners. Used suggestion to type in mitered quilt border corners and found this link: http://www.quiltuniversity.com/mitering_borders.htm

Haven't tried it yet, but am going to use it on Civil War quilt sampler I'm making from Eleanor Burns book "Underground Railroad".

Hoping for successful mitered corners!

I add the borders and stop 1/4" away from the edge. Then I take the quilt to the ironing board and fold the borders back to where they match up perfectly, just like they are supposed to. Then I press them well, unfold, sew right sides together, matching up the pressed edges. I have pretty much success with this method.

Some members have mentioned what I consider the most important part of mitering anything. The 45* angle. If you don't have that it will never look like you want. Rule your sewing line and keep to it and you won't have a problem. If mitering was called 45* corner people wouldn't have a problem. IMHO.

Don't let it beat you, it just a corner.

I had trouble too, someone directed me to this tutorial for mitering for different angles. It looks easy, I have tried it & it worked for a few of the corners, but then...I must have done something wrong. Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vci9-li3aYU
good luck. I have only "birthed" lately. Too lazy for the extra steps.

I have never mitered borders but mitering binding is easy

I love that tut. I was wonderful to see the different angles and her demo was wonderful!

Since I did not read all pages I hope I am not repeating information that someone else might have already given, but, am I nuts or did you not say Borders!? Eleanor Burns has I think personally the best and easiest way to do the mitered border. If you go on her media theater you will be able to find a quilt that she does there and adds the mitered border, if I remember correctly it does require maybe 8-12 inches of extra fabric but it is quite easy. Hope you can find the technique and don't give up. :thumbup:

Ariannaquilts....I had never seen the media theater site.
Heres a link but I have no idea which one she does the mitred border. But plenty of good videos here.

http://quiltinaday.com/theater/library.html

I looked up the Eleanor Burns mitering technique on her media theater it is found on the Quilters Almanac Quilt the video you would need is the last one that says about finishing. If you are one of those people who doesn't particularly care for El you can skip forward to the point when she is teaching the mitering. Hope this helps.

i worked my mitered corners out on smaller projects such as mug rugs or potholders. i use a glue stick after i have them folded correctly. i apply the glue stick & hot iron in place. then all i have to do is sew the binding down. i saw this tip online somewhere but cannot remember where. it works just great.