Scalloped Border Magic - No Math!

[Music] hey everyone christa moser here today i get to show you my brand new ruler this is the scallop border template by creative grids designed by me so what we have here are three different sizes of scallops for different depths of borders and then a corner unit that's universal to all of those so the nice thing about this there's no math involved it will fit any size quilt it will fit any depth of border and um it's pretty clever i've actually been doing scalloped borders this way for like 20 years finally we get to put it in a template form so what we have is a narrow one this is just a shallow scallop so that's good for borders up to about five inches deep and then we've got a medium size that's good for borders up to about eight inches deep and then we have the the deep one here that is good for borders up to about 12 inches so you can get you know the wider your border the deeper your scallop can be and and then the corner unit is universal to all of those so it fits any of those so what i thought i'd show you is how this works i've got some papers here because i'm actually going to use paper templates i'm going to use the the template here to draw on um some paper so i can get my placement and then you will see how how this all comes together so i've got a couple of pieces of paper now what i'm going to do is i'm going to cut my corner units first so i'm going to lay these down here right under this corner unit centering and then i'm just going to cut all the way around this will be my corner placement on the quilt so once i have those i just have these half moon shapes i'm gonna actually fold them in half again and give myself a little crease that actually comes in handy when placing them into the corners so i'm just gonna give this one a crease and it'll be all set up okay now the quilt that i'm going to scallop has four inch borders so i'm going to use the shallow scallop here so i'm going to grab more of these papers a couple three of them and i'm just going to place them under the shallow scallop so i'm going to center that here so cut up and to the top just like that so what this creates is a mirror image so what i've just done here my hill and my valley you do a lot of these you would cut quite a few of these depending on how long your quilt is you're going to need them to lay down the the sides and across the top and bottom so i've actually already got quite a few of those cut so i'll set these aside and then i'm going to grab my quilt now what i've done just a panel quilt just like a baby size or something so but it's good for showing you how this works so i've just done this this panel with a few borders added so here's the way we do it we've got the corners here now i went and i took it to the ironing board and i pressed a crease into the corners i folded the quilt in such a way that i could get a 45 line and pressed my nice uh my nice crease and that way i line that up with those corner units where i folded them in half so here is what i'm gonna do i'm just going to make some room here all right so i'm going to place my corner unit with this crease on the um the crease from the iron on the quilt and i'm going to just pin it in place and i'll do the other one on the other side just like that so you set your corners up first so i've got two corners set i'm going to turn it so this is the long edge so i'm going to grab another corner unit and place it down here and then we have the fourth and final corner that's going to get a corner unit as well all right okay starting with the long edge see if i can get it all up on my table okay so from the corner edges you are going to take one of your pieces here and put the hill into the corner so where the corner comes around it will hit the top of the hill and then come down into the first valley so that is my markup point it's just where my hill meets the corner so we'll get those set on both sides and then we can just work in between laying out the next pieces so here we have just like this okay so here's the distance i have to cover in between it's basically from here to here so i'm just going to grab more of my hill and valley pieces and turning them valley to valley hill to hill you'll see some of my paper pieces have great grid on them that's not necessary it's just the paper that i had okay i think i can fit one more piece in here so what i'm going to do now this is the beauty of it there's no math so what i'm going to do is i'm going to scooch all these together by overlapping them little by little and the nice thing is is you overlap them even amounts you overlap them at the valley and the hill by even amounts so i'm going to start with like a quarter inch overlap and i'm looking to see if that will get me about the the distance i need it's going to be a little bit more than that it looks like so i'm just kind of eyeballing it with my overlapping it's just under a half an inch worth of overlap here okay that looks about that looks about right so by overlapping both the hill and the valley you keep the balance of the ratio between the two pretty good so now i'm just going to go in and i'm going to pin these in place this would be the same if you're using a wider border notice when i draw this line and then eventually quilt and cut this out you're actually not removing much so a lot of misconceptions when it comes to scallop borders that you're going to be cutting away quite a bit you really only are shallowing out parts and of course the depth of that depends on what they're using the small medium or the large scallop so even for a small quilt you could use the large scallop if you wanted a really exaggerated wave look okay so here we have all those balanced in place that's good now what i'm going to do here is i'm actually going to take a pin and i'm going to draw this line the reason i do this is because you would then go and quilt this and you would quilt up to the line and then you would cut it away afterwards now you could do this after it's already been quilted you wouldn't necessarily then draw the line what you would do is you would just cut so if you've already quilted it and you want to go ahead and cut your scallop through the quilting and everything there's some risk to that because you would want to bind it right away so if that's um for your style i have done it that way before but you want to bind it immediately so that none of your quilting stitches pull loose but it can be done but for this case i'm just going to draw the line so then i can quilt up to that line and um and cut it away afterwards okay just about done with this side i'm just sketching kind of a a rough line to follow so when i go to quilt i don't get my stitches too far over it and the important thing is you get these corner units and i'm gonna go around the corner just like that okay now the short end i'm gonna turn the whole thing you don't have to leave these papers in place as a matter of fact i think i'll just pull some out so i can use them down the other side but you do leave the corners in place so i've got those in place here and now here i'm going to start with my hill matching my corner again there we go [Music] coming down into the valley the other side too the hill matching okay so here's the space that i've got to fill between these two now on the last side i overlapped them about 3 8 of an inch on this side i think what i'm going to need to do is spread them out so that's the nice thing you can do because overlapping them i think is not going to work out too well so we have to overlap a lot in order for it to fit and these you can overlap them probably about an inch before it starts to really change the dimensions so seeing as i would have to overlap them maybe closer to an inch and a half or two i think i'm going to go the other way and i'm going to spread them out so i'll remove some of these and in this case it looks like if i spread them out to have about an inch gap between the two in both the valley and the hill it'll be a nice smooth transition it'll also be easier to bind think about this you're binding along the curves so if you've got tighter curves it'll be a little bit more tedious to bind so i'm spreading these out which makes them a little bit longer a little bit easier to bind okay so i've got and here again i'm just eyeballing this but it's about an inch difference between them so i'm leaving a gap of an inch at the valley and an inch at the hill and then i'm going to take my pin and i'm going to draw around it again now my corner has been set so i can just work my way down here and here's the gap go right across and up the other side here's the gap again and then back down and you can use a fabric marking pin that will disappear like an air erasable i'm using a permanent pin so that you guys can see it i wouldn't necessarily suggest that um if you're just doing this at home okay so i'm pulling my papers to see and we've got a nice gentle scallop here and now i would turn it and go back down the other side same thing this is the long edge again likely it will be overlapping again by about 3 8 of an inch here's the other nice thing if your quilt's a little wonky and one edge is longer than the other you'll never know by doing this method you will never ever see it it's going to disguise all of those imperfections because you can do these minute adjustments and it'll make it totally um blend in so it's a pretty great way to uh make something like that discrete okay so i've already actually got this whole process and the quilting done to one so i'm going to show you what i do next let me pull that up here all right so here is another quilt a panel that i added borders to you can see i did this marking line i quilted up to it i've left it you know raw edge here and i'm going to show you how i cut the scallops you can of course use scissors but you can also use the template and it's kind of easy to do that so let me clear some space and i'll show you how to cut that out using the template all right so i've got my corner take the plastic the template plastic and put it right into the corner now here the ruler has a thick black line going right up through the center of it so we've got this hanging hole here then thick black line line that up with the pressed edge you know when you did the corner and you pressed a crease in it this should line up perfectly so basically coming from the corner inside border all the way through the the creased line here headed out towards the outside so i'm just going to trim this part right here not clear around because remember it matched into one of the hill pieces and so the curve gets a little more gentle but here this will give me my my curve so here we have there and i think i'm just going to cut it off like that okay so i've gone my first corner now here is the the the shallow one that i've used so i'm going to turn this over and match it up so that i've got my line right down into the valley across the valley turn the ruler over and now i can go up the other side the hill just there and turn the ruler and line it up scoot it towards me a little bit i'm just going to go like this and then just scoot it down i think i had is the one i had to spread out a little bit so going across the valley and then up the other side back to the corner i'll turn the corner unit in i'm looking for my lineup piece here line up that thick black line from the inside border point out here we've got some corner placement guides so you can follow seams if you've got seams to follow i'm just going to all right turning it and fit it back up in here down the hill the valley and just turn the ruler over and work your way all the way down the quilt hill and valley hill and valley and now if you had your quilt all quilted and did not draw the lines or didn't do um you know the quilting up to the lines you could just draw the lines with your spacing and then just cut right through your quilting it would not be a problem if you were to bind it immediately okay trim that away now across the top and this is the ones that are kind of elongated where there is there is a space i think that's about an inch is what i had there okay back to the corner last side now scallop orders you need to do bias binding so that it curves around but it will make it very easy to bind especially these gentle curves because you don't have to do inside points with a scallop border like this no inside points just um just hills and valleys but you will want to cut your your binding strips on the bias just about okay and last one okay and there it is cut just like a breeze so simple all the way around so you saw how he did that no math it'll fit any size quilt any depth of border you can do either a a deep scallop or a shallow one and you can add this kind of fun border to just about any quilt without um without too much trouble so you saw how i did that i i scrunched them together for the sides to get the the scallops even out and then i spread them across the ends a little bit further apart so you can do that with any quilt too you can you can spread them out so you get a nice gentle curve or you can scrunch them together to get a little bit tighter and that's what i did to this quilt here you can see i added a scallop border to the edge of my vintage windmill pattern so i went ahead and added a wide white border and then cut it as a scallop and by doing that it kind of adds a nice little flare to this uh to this quilt also now i talked about bias binding so you have to use bias binding because it stretches and it's cut on the cross grain so it's cut on the 45. i'm going to put a link to a bias binding video how to cut your strips to be cut on the bias i'll put a link to that in the description box because i've already done a video for that but also the way i did this binding where it's a scrappy bias binding it eats up all your scraps so if you use you know something to piece the center and you're just looking to use up the last bits of scraps you can do this bias binding trick where you sew any width of strip together and then cut it across on the 45 and you can make bias binding like i've done here that's scrappy and it just kind of changes color all the way around so i'm going to put a link in the description to a blog i did about that trick as well and then of course we have the template the scallop border template by creative grids i will put a link to this in the description box if you would like to get one and use it on your next quilt i hope you found something inspiring here thanks for watching [Music] it was all your fault [Laughter] it's like 120 degrees in this room i am sweating like a pig

Channel: Krista Moser

Views: 11,720

Rating: 4.9850001 out of 5

Keywords: Krista, Moser, Scalloped, Borders, No, Math, Ruler, Cut Loose, Press, Quilt, Quilts, Quilted, Life, Bias, Binding, panel

Id: JnQwZ8kM87g

Length: 21min 1sec (1261 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 01 2021