Calculate quilt border

Learn how to sew simple quilt borders for beginners with this step by step tutorial. It'll show you how to cut, piece and attach a border.

Learn the correct way to add borders on a quilt to avoid wavy strips and make it easier for a longarm quilter to work with your quilt.

Main - Guidelines for border width??? - How do you determine the width of your borders? Is there a general rule about the ratio of the border width to the block size, or do you just go with what looks good to you? Thanks

Learn how to easily calculate quilt binding taking into account the size of the quilt and the extra binding needed to turn corners and join ends.

"How many yards should I get to add a border to my quilt?" This is one of the most popular questions from my retail quilt shop days. Let's remove the mystery from those calculations today by talking through the options. Hang with me. This might start feeling a little like math class but I promise to help you every step of the way. At the end of this post there is a worksheet you can download and save. Just print the worksheet, answer the questions and you will be able to easily calculate…

In today’s post, you’ll learn everything you need to know about piecing your quilt backing. We’ll go over how to piece your backing step by step, how to determine how much fabric you need, and alternative options for when you don’t want to piece your back. After you’ve learned how to piece your quilt backing,...

How to measure quilt borders the proper way

There are times when you are making a quilt when you need to add borders to increase the size of the quilt. You may be trying to get the qu...

"How many yards should I get to add a border to my quilt?" This is one of the most popular questions from my retail quilt shop days. Let's...

Learn how to sew quilt borders with this step-by-step tutorial. Learn how wide quilt borders should be, how to calculate the yardage needed and how to accurately sew borders to your quilt!