Cutting and Adding Quilt Borders by Barb Sackel for QuiltWoman.com

hi my name is barb Sacco today's video is made possible by cult woman calm in today's video we're going to talk about cutting borders and any borders onto your quilt sometimes you would find the instructions would say for this side it's so long for this side it's so long and it's really hard to measure out sixty five and a half or ninety eight and a half so I'm going to show you a little bit of a shortcut so that you don't necessarily have to measure out those long pieces the quill we're using today is behind me it's called lilac festival by you dia bricks and we're going to do many things to this quilt in this video we're going to add a teal border on the outside then we're going to do some crazy grid quilting that will be in the next video and I'm also going to show you how to put together a backing with this quilt and that'll be in the next video too so watch for those videos coming up using this quilt so right now we're going to put our fabrics together and I'm going to take my one piece of fabric I'm going to put the two ends together line up the edge and I'm going to cut out my strips four layers deep let's go and get some cutting done okay so here's our favorite down on our mat I have it folded over on itself so that I can cut out two strips at a time my edge is lined up with the edge of the mat and now I'm going to take my first cut and throw it away because we want a nice line measure in three and a half inches that's what my directions tell me and my directions say I need seven strips so there's two there's four there six and one more I'm going to go into the single because I don't need a double I don't need eight I only need seven and there is a video I just made talking about cutting layers so if this is a little bit unusual for you to see me cut these layers so quickly go ahead and check out that video and just like that I have my seven strips done well I think that was less than a minute we're ready to put these together and start our border treatment okay so here we are at the sewing machine and I have my strips in front of me but I need to join them because one strip is not going to be long enough my Pinner told me I need sixty five and a half inches and I know this drip is only 40 so I'm going to join two of them so I'm going to lay my first strip down across and on the right side and I'm going to lay my second strip on top why do they have right sides together so that it forms in a corner unit then I'm going to take the head I call this the head and I call this the tail and the head is right in that corner where the two strips join and the tail is right in that corner with a two strips meet right there again now lykan let's square in the corner video I taught you how to draw that line on your machine and I took a ruler and just basically laid it on laid it on my sewing machine where the needle goes and I just took a marker and I drew a line for me I also use that line in this when I do on this technique when I join the strips to make the board treatments so I'm going to put the head in the presser foot right under the needle and I'm going to take the tail and I am going to just drag this right up the line now another thing that you could do you could draw a line of course from head to tail but that's a lot next or so if you don't mind having a line on your sewing machine or a piece of masking tape on your sewing machine works just as well just take that tail and just drive it right up that line done now I'm going to take the strip that I just finished and I'm going to lay it out across my table just like I did the first one I'm going to take the third strip the new one I'm going to put it like that upside down out and again I'm going to turn it put the head what I call the head underneath the needle in the tail I'm going to draw it right out and as you can see I'm chain piecing these units and you can just go on and on with this and magus long of a border treatment is necessary of course you would do the same thing making your binding and I'm going to do one more piece because I want this long enough to do two sides at once so again I'm going to take that put my tail right on that line I go that's it now I'm going to cut off quarter-inch right along the sole line get rid of that and let's get rid of this piece and finally I going to cut this left excess off and now we have a very long border ready to go in and like I said before I'm not going to measure this okay now let's take it over to the quilt and let the quilts do the measuring for us okay so here's our long strip I took it to the iron and ironed out the center crease and ironed the seam here that we put together so that this unit is nice and flat now I'm going to put it on itself and it doesn't matter which right sides are just it doesn't matter just put it on itself and what we're going to do is we're going to measure this across the quilt and this is the center of the quilt now like when we put a block together we were saying the song top bottom side side well here's where it really applies when I do borders it goes like this top bottom side side top bottom side side and that way because you're singing a song to yourself no matter how many borders you put on it's consistent so because the top and the bottom are the shorter edges we need to measure our piece along our quilt in the center to find out how big the top and bottom needs to be now this is a correction way to fix your quilt because when you build your quilt if you just put your borders on your borders without measuring or without doing this trick your borders will start to wave and the more borders you add the more wavy quilt you'll have and then when you go to quote it you'll actually have to stitch darts in it to bring the size in so this is a correction regardless of how well you saw your quilt this is going to correct any imperfections and make it so that your edges aren't waving so I laid this two pieces out across the middle of my quilt and from side to side and I smooth it out now this is the reason we don't have to measure because once I cut this this is what we're going to be our the quilt will have to match this size I'll show you what I mean so now that it's laid out I'm going to take my scissors and I'm just going to cut along the edge and then I'm going to go over to this side cut along the edge and there it is my top and my bottom has been measured out now I'm going to bring my top in my bottom and this is always a surprise whether it's going to work or not and you'll see what I mean by if your quilt needs correcting I'm going to bring my top down on the table take my cut piece and I'm going to lay it out and if it if it matches and you've done a pretty good job and if it doesn't matches we're going to use that trick bubble on the bottom and that's going to gather any excess fabric you have in your quilt top so lay your border on the top of your quilt and you have to pin this and the reason why you have to pin this is because if there is an imperfection in your quilt top you need you need a pin so that your quilt on the machine will gather your quilt on the bottom and you'll never know what's happening you'll never see it so I attend about every 8 or 9 inches and that gives me plenty of room and now I put couple pins in there and then I'm going to go to the other end and pin this and this is fitting pretty darn good and again I'm going to add a couple more pins in place match that up to the side now I'm going to do the other side bring that down and this is again is our top bottom portion of the song this is right sides together let's pin now I've already put the first layer onto the quilt this technically is the second layer sometimes I have multiple layers I like the way borders frame out a quilt it's like a picture framing out of painting so I tend to like my borders and again I pinned both ends and then I would if my quilt was a little extra big I would kind of manipulate it so that they were evenly pieced and then is your pressure foot feeds on this it would eat up that bubble on the bottom and gather your quilt and so this is the way to square up your quilt as you're going along and notice there was not one bit of measuring now we need to take this to the sewing machine so our quarter inch seam allowance and then we're going to come back and do the sides okay so I have sewn my top and my bottom on and I pressed it open now we have just the sides left to do so I put my clothes out on the table and you can put it out on the floor if you don't have the table space and this I have put my two pieces of border treatment on top and smoothed everything out and once that's done I'm going to go and cut the sides and again that's my measurement quilt has done the measuring for me now I'm going to slide this over so that I can pin these in place you're going to lay this down and it fits perfect we're going to pin this side in place we're going to pin the other side in place so it your quarter inch seam and iron it and your quilt top is done and ready to be quilted so join me again on the next video as we learn how to do a backing for this quilt see you then you you

Channel: QuiltWoman.com

Views: 41,428

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Keywords: Cutting Borders, Quilt Borders, Barb Sackel, QuiltWoman.com, Sheer Romance, EBI Fabrics, Katia Hoffman, Lilac Festival, Lilac Festival Quilt Pattern

Id: pUNuAKPDc_A

Length: 13min 32sec (812 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 13 2015