3 quilts in 1 1/2 weeks marathon
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Originally Posted by Craftygirl
They are all fantastic. Can you explain for me how you did the border on both the front and back to look the same. I really love the look of the back with the border.
Now, layer the backing material on your batting and baste it in place. The nice thing about doing it this way is that since the quilt is only 48" wide, I can use just one piece of fabric for the backing. It doesn't cover the whole back because the boarder is wide enough so it doesn't have to. I do hand baste the otuside edges of the fabric backing in place so that it doesn't move or roll after it's done.
Next, layer the quilt as you normally would butting the batting up to the crease you made in the outside boarder. Then you quilt or in my case I tied the quilt and only stitched around both sides of the first boarder and then the inside seam of the outside boarder. This gives you a good line to sew your back side boarder to. Then I turn the whole thing to the back side and fold the corners so they are mitered. Then hand stitch like any other binding you put on. It's the simplest way I know of the finishing off a quilt.
I hope this makes some sense to you.
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Originally Posted by madamekelly
I love that you tie your quilts. Do you do any quilting, or are they just tied? I like to tie mine also. It gives me a warm "grandma" feeling to have a tied quilt on my bed.
Oh yea, rest will come but not until after the New Year! Then I'm going into hiding for a while. LOL
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ok I found the web site for the Little Blossom block.
http://www.quilterscache.com/L/LittleBlossomsBlock.html
http://www.quilterscache.com/L/LittleBlossomsBlock.html
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