Quilt border measurements

Enhance your quilts with creative border ideas! Find patterns, tutorials, and inspiration for adding the perfect finishing touch.

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.

Helpful App - 'The Quilter's Little Helper' by Robert Kaufman Fabrics. Need to know how much yardage to buy for piecing, backs, bindings, etc.? This great, easy to use app does all of the calculating for you.

How to measure quilt borders the proper way

"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…

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...

Here are a few quick quilt measurement cheat sheets, to help you get the right measurements for your quilts without breaking out the calculator. In here we will answer: How much backing and binding do I need for my quilt? What size are different types of quilts? How many squares can I cut from a fat quarter?

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