Quilt boarders

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

Have you ever gotten your quilt blocks all pieced together and 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 did 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 be…

Borders? I have a love/hate relationship with borders on my quilts. And lately, I have been very lax---read that as lazy---about using ...

When I first started quilting, I really wanted to make a specific quilt for our bed. Except it was a throw size. Unsure of how to proceed, I emailed the designer and asked for her help. She suggested I add borders to the quilt to make it the size I wanted. While that was great advice, I took it a step further by resiz

Have you ever bought a quilt pattern just to realize that the pattern designer’s definition of a throw-size quilt isn’t the same as yours? Luckily, widening the size of your quilt top isn’t as difficult as it may seem. In today’s post, I’ll share three different ways to adjust the size of your quilt top...

Figuring out the right border sizes isn't as hard as you might think!

Have you ever wanted to give a little added punch to your borders? Here is a very easy way to do just that! You can make this any size you want. If you want larger diamonds, just cut the center strip wider. Although this is more time consuming than many methods, you achieve a very pleasing result that looks much more difficult than it really is! This is actually a form of Seminole Patchwork. 1. Cut strips crosswise (from selvage to selvage) in the width you want. I have cut my outer borders…

Using a walking foot is the easiest and quickest way to quilt borders. Continue reading for 7 easy border quilting ideas using a walking foot.

Use these attractive and FREE Quilt Border Patterns as a reason to finish off your quilts with stunning borders. Pick a border that works with your quilt.

I had ‘snowing class’ last night and I’m so excited about the border to the courthouse steps quilt! It’s looking great already. I had a lot of strips cut that I didn’t…