mitered corners are really not that hard. and if you don't get it right the first time, pressing it will show you where to sew to tighten up the angle. or at least that always seems to work for me.

they do eat up a weirdly large amount of fabric at a point in construction that i am often running close to not having enough.

Thank you, PaperPrincess, for the tutorial link!

Very nice tutorial. I've only mitered borders a couple of times but I have a question. I just did one this week and my borders are 'wavy'. I have learned to avoid this when doing blunt borders, measuring across the center of the quilt and cutting the border to length, but the extra fabric required for miitering seems to defeat this method. Any advice on that?

I've only mitered one or two quilts in the past and since starting to use Elmers Glue in my assembling, I find using it to match up the corners before stitching is ideal...............at least for me. I've been using the glue whenever its critical for matching up.

I posted several tutorials on Easy Mitered Corners. One is at http://www.quiltingboard.com/tutoria...s-t159462.html

What about mitered borders on a hexagon shaped quilt top? I'm doing a tree skirt for my daughter and would like to miter the borders. I know it's not necessary, but I would like to give it that extra touch. Would I do it the same as a square quilt top? I know how to miter with a 90 deg. angle. Thanks.

I usually only miter corners where the pattern of the border is so prominently striped that it would look good that way. If the border fabric is busy and it isn't really chopped up looking to do straight across seams, I do that. If that pattern would be too badly interrupted as and look bad, I will do setting squares on the corners.

Don't be afraid of miters. The best advice I ever got was, if you are using multiple borders, do not do each one separately. Instead, sew the strips of the border together, THEN cut the lengths for the four borders and miter (or mitre, for our Canadian and Australian :-) .) Better to do just four miters than four for each border. Good luck!!