Eleanor Burns has a terrific video on how to mitre corners. She does a fabulous job of explaining it, and you can also watch her as she does it. I don't know if it's just the way she does it, but I found it easy to follow. If you screw up, you can go back to the video and check it again and again and again, if need be, but I don't think more than a couple of times is necessary.

I tried to miter a border once, the corner ended up about two inches away from the corner. If that makes sense lol.
Nope not something I do.

I love the look of them tho, and wish I could.

Buttt.
can't so won't.

Rita

I only miter if I'm using a striped border that looks "chopped off" if I don't. With stripes, the miter ends up looking more finished - sort of like a picture frame.

No matter if you miter a corner or use the folding method, which looks like a miter or if you stop and start the binding at each corner, the process will use up fabric. If possible, I round off the corners, mostly on baby or children's quilts and sew the binding around the corner. Saves time and fabric. Try it.

Carol J.

I agree. I have watched several tuts and still cannot figure it out.
It is also the end of the quilt and am afraid I will make a mistake and ruin the quilt.
So no mitering for me.

So, if you miter the corners of the quilt top, do you have trouble with the corners "sticking out" when it is quilted? I just miter when the fabric looks best (usually a strip or border print) if it is mitered. If I'm using a busy print or solid fabric I don't miter.

I don't know how to miter borders :mrgreen:

I don't miter most of the time, but every once in a while depending on the quilt, fabric and for who, I will miter.

I do that as well, using my quilt back

Depends on the quilt pattern...but I to have a problem with mitered cooners...woops been out of school to long how do you spell coners ????.....haha