Quilt borders ideas inspiration

Let me show you how to add borders to your quilt the correct way! This will help prevent puckers and tucks in the quilting, and help your quilt to lay flat when it is done. Whether you choose to quilt

With a ton of things to do before the end of the year I got distracted yet again! I saw the "Quilt as you go Hexagon" tutorial from Missouri Star Quilt Co. (here) and realized that this was my kind of hexie! Paper piecing and little hexies scare me - but this bigger, faster and easy version seemed like a whole lot of fun. You don't have to buy a template; there are lots of tutorials and videos that show you the same technique using cardboard and different sized units. I did get the one sold…

Discover creative quilt panel border ideas to enhance your quilt projects. Find inspiration and tips for adding beautiful, unique borders.

Aside from playing around with EQ, this is what I’ve been working on. I need 4 long strips like this for one of the pieced borders for Scrappy Star. At this point, it seems like an endless bi…

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The fancy piano keys border increases by 1″ so it’s easily added to any size quilt. The other one increases in 6″ increments so any quilt with 6″, 12″ or 18″ blo…

It can be easy to find ourselves in a “quilting rut” with any area of a quilt, but borders seem to be particularly prone to this, perhaps because it’s easy to just be ready to be done by the time we’re quilting a border. But, borders can also add a lot of interest to a quilt, so let’s take a look at

I joined Amanda's Nine Patch a Day quilt along last April and finished the first half of the blocks in May and the second half of the blocks in June. I finally got around to piecing the top of the...

Have you ever had your quilt blocks all pieced together, but then been totally stumped on what to do for the borders? Me too! Haha! I will show you what I came up with, and maybe it will inspire some creative ideas in you too!Last week, I was working on my first Dresden Plate quilt (you can see that post here). I made some different kind of block arrangements that are whimsical and maybe a little artsy. So when I got to the border, I had to pause (but not for long because this quilt had to…

Ok..... this quilt is turning out totally wonderful!!! I am sooo excited to share what I came up with for this row. And, for some reason we skipped a pattern. Did anyone else notice that? The patterns are usually going out every other monday...but there was a jump in dates. Sometimes I totally wonder where my brain is! I know, it's behind my eyes.....but clearly it wasn't on while looking at calendar dates. Enough about the brain....let's get on with the totally cute row!