dd55

thanks for posting. i always learn new tips from youtube videos.

quilt addict

Thanks for posing the questions. I like the video, but still would like to know what you should use as a guide when you have a quilt that doesn't have a boarder edge to use. Any one done that?

Prism99

Do you pin first? Match centers first, then edges, then quarters, etc.

If you are getting a pucker in the bottom layer or else coming up short in the top layer, you can also try pulling slightly on the top layer when feeding the fabric.

Sandra in Minnesota

Thanks for the video. It was great! I put it in my favorites for future reference.

JanieH

Great video! Thanks for sharing it.

overdew

Be sure you have the part you want to ease in on the bottom so the feed dogs work to ease it in. I learned this at a pattern making workshop. It really makes a difference.

butterflies5518

What a great video, I never knew this information or even thought it should be asked.

indymta

Let's say you cut the border to the 2 of the 3 measurements but it is 1/4 inch shorter than the 3rd. So I can't really fold the border in 1/2...1/4 etc because wouldn't I pin it even at the top? So how then do you match up therest of it? Am I over thinking this?

gingerd

I too asked about what to do if the quilt doesn't have borders. I posted it in a separate question because it got buried here. My thought is that no one knows.........just a thought as with my other post I didn't get an answer there either.

Does anyone know?

Thanks!

Prism99

Maybe you are over-thinking it. Here's an example.

I measure the quilt through the middle and it is 82 inches (you could use the average of 3 separate measurements instead, but I don't bother), so I cut my border strip 82 inches.

Next step is to mark the quilt into eighths. I fold the quilt in half to find the mid-point and put a pin there; that is the pin that marks the halfway point. Then I fold each end to that pin to find the quarter marks and put pins there to mark them. To find the eighths, I fold until two pins match and mark that center point.

On the border, I do the same thing (although usually I iron the marks). I fold the border in half and iron the fold. Then I fold each end to that mark and iron in the quarters. I match quarter marks to iron in the eights.

Now my border is 82 inches long and marked into eighths. My quilt edge may be 83 inches long, but it is also marked into eighths. I pin the border to the quilt edge, matching marks (and pinning the edges also). That way the extra inch is split up into 8 different sections. It's not hard to ease an eighth of an inch at a time. In this case, I would probably put the quilt on the bottom (so the feed dogs can ease in the excess) and put a little extra tension on the border piece if I see I am going to run out of border before I get to the next pin. If the quilt edge measured 81 inches, then I would put the border on the bottom and pull a little extra tension on the quilt top while sewing. In this way, after sewing, the length of each border at the outer edge will be 82 inches.

Easing is the process of *gradually* working in excess fabric without getting a pucker.