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How to Accurately Attach Quilt Borders

Kimberlee Tanner

Tags Beginner Quilter, Quilting Basics, Tutorial

How to Accurately Attach Quilt Borders

How to Accurately Attach Quilt Borders When we first started quilting, we’d finish a top, sew the border strips together, line it up along the edge of the quilt and add it. After it was sewn on, we’d trim it off to match. This was quick and easy, BUT, we noticed that most of our quilts had extra fabric and waves. The corners were never quite square. We assumed it was just the way that fabric stretches and pulls with no thought of the way we did the borders being an issue. I simply dealt with it during the quilting...