After checking out MANY sites on how to square up and cutting my quilt and being so discouraged with the instructions, I finally found your's. Rob, this is exactly what I really wanted! Thank you so much! Incidentally, your quilt is amazing.
If I had to read the instructions or someone explained to me how to square up a quilt, I would not get it. Not without the visual, it's just nice to see you demonstrate the details. Thank you, Rob. ✌️
You are a quilting rock star! Thank you for simplifying the squaring up process. I don't need to submit my quilt to a Padukah quilt show, I just need to get it done. 🎊🎊🎊
Thank you so much for explaining this in a simple way. I have gotten so confused from different people trying to explain or watching it on You Tube. I am going to watch all of your tutorials!
Oh my goodness! You’re the best! I’ve watched 10 videos on squaring a quilt top and started to go cross eyed. Within the first 2 minutes of your video, I was understanding everything! Thank you thank you!!!
I've looked at this before, and now that I've finished sashing my quilt, and and am ready to learn to add borders, I want to square up what I have, considering one of the blocks is a whopping half inch off from the line up on one of the sides of the quilt. This ought to help. Next step is my experimenting with quilting, in which case stitch-in-the-ditch would be easiest, and then comes watching Rob again to square the whole thing up. When I first bought fabric, expensive as it is, I thought I would never dare cut it. It was one thing sewing apparel with pattern tissues - easy peasy - but it's another cutting squares and Flying Geese without being able to see what they will turn into. So thanks, Rob. You have more space than I do to use for cutting, but I'm sure I'll manage by rolling excess, as I had to do while pinning sashings.
Thank you so much!! Big is always so much harder to deal with and people always show you how to trim a small item, which is no big deal. However, when it comes to a king size quilt it is a huge deal! And it was great see you in Houston!😍👏
Thank you for this wonderful tutorial. I have watched many tutorials to learn how to square a quilt but never truly got it until this one. I will FINALLY finish a quilt now. You are awesome. Keep them coming.
Mesmerized by your quilting design as I watched you square your quilt. I feel your free motion quilt design is telling a story, much like a beautiful painting. Thank you for your awesome teachings Rob
Hi Rob, I do more sewing of clothing and was never really interested in quilting until I found your videos! They are so informative and just really well put together! Keep up the great work!
Thanks for this video of squaring a large quilt. I'm making a king size quilt and was dreading the squaring up process. You made it look much simpler than I thought it would be!
This was one of the best videos for squaring a quilt. I’m squaring my first quilt and it’s a big one. Thanks for all the specifics and the little tips (only use half your ruler!).
Thank you SO MUCH for demonstrating on a large quilt! I just finished quilting a king sized quilt and was dreading the process of squaring it up. You make it look super easy so I don’t feel as intimidated now!
Awesome tutorial and I actually followed your directions to a T and my quilt is perfectly squared. There is a first time for everything! Many thanks, Rob!
Thank You Man Quilting 😀for the how to square up a quilt! I’m making the Mommy & Me baby quilt and am at that stage, it is working nicely!!!😀👍🏻 Btw: Google directed me to you for how to square up a quilt.
Rob, thank you so much! Was trying to figure out how to square my quilt top, only off by about 1/8 inch. Now I’m going to forget that and square up after quilting! Have learned so many techniques from watching your videos. Thank you, thank you!
What.a great tutorial thank you. From the UK I have only just come across your videos. New to quilting, for my second large quilt I pieced the backing fabric. For cornerstones on the last fabric strip before binding, I put checkerboard squares in the four corners. Trying to square up the quilt before trimming and binding, I lost some of the last row, making the quilt backing a little out of balance with two cornerstones. Oh how I wish I had seen your videos before!! I have now watched several videos from you and each one I have come away having learnt at least one very useful technique. Thank you again. Regards Alison
Thank you again Rob for another great video. Wishing you & all your family a very Merry safe Christmas & a wonderful New Year. Come visit us in Australia ! Xxx
I have always been taught that you square up the blocks then to keep the top square you measure your borders at 3 or 4 points across the quilt on all sides and average them out, cut at that average measurement and then sew them on the quilt and this process will keep the quilt square.
Great tutorial! I wish I had a large table. But I do have a large mat and I put it on the wood floor in the kitchen. I just never knew how to square up! So I just did the best I could. Thank you for all the tips.
Thanks for the great video and your positive attitude. It helps when I don’t even want to LOOK at my quilting projects on some days. lol Loved the music, too.
I use a small dumbbell on my quilt as I’m squaring it to stop it slipping off my table and on my yard ruler to keep pressure on it. I find what throws my quilt out of square is areas where it’s more densely quilted than others.
Hi, thank you very much for the information, now I know how to do this! Your quilt is beautiful & I love the design. Thank you for all you do, your teaching is clear and your programs are fun to watch (never boring).
Clear and precise instructions with speech when required, great workmanship and skills show in your work as you have produced a beautiful quilt. Thanks for sharing Rob 👍
This was an awesome tutorial. My long armer is the one who trims my quilts after they are quilted. What I desperately need to know is how to square up a quilt TOP before it goes to the quilter for quilting? A tutorial on that would be wonderful!!
It is such a great video, I will use your method the next time I finish a quilt. The two that I made this year got the I am doing the best I can job...LOL
Oh, thank you for demonstrating this on a large quilt instead of a postage stamp like most! That was very helpful. It looked like the outer border was not quilted...? Again, great demo. Thank you so much! 🙂
Do you have a video of how to piece backing fabric for a quilt? I'm about to start sewing my blocks and could could some advice on piecing back coz I'm getting close to that, probably still a couple weeks out since I only work on my quilts at night for 6 hours, 4 days a week while my husband works lol
Rob how do you keep your ruler from sliding everywhere? I've tried everything to keep that ruler from sliding from hand placement, putting sticky dots on the bottom, to practically standing on top of it. It is very frustrating getting your cut going then the ruler going slightly to the left or the right in the middle of a cut. Thank you so much for your tutorials they are fun to watch and have been a blessing.
Hey Rob, this is the first time I have tuned into your channel. Great video! I really like the quilt you were working on (the big one). Is there a pattern for this? It is awesome!
Thank you for this video! It helps. so what happens when you do all this and you measure the top and bottom persay and there is a say a half in difference. How do you fix the difference or for a small amount do you just let it go?
If you have a double border, would you square up the quilt BEFORE you attach the second border, or square up the quilt AFTER you attach the second border?
You're tutorials are always so helpful! My question would be about using a round table for basting. I don't have a square or rectangle table to use. Is it possible to make a round table work?
Rob, I'm trying to make a bargello quilt and I'm so frustrated. I've cut so much off of both ends of my strip tube trying to square it up that I don't know if I even have enough to finish the quilt. Every time I cut it gets more uneven. Do you have a tutorial on how to square up strip tubes? Should I have squared it all up before I sewed it into a tube? Thank you for your great tutorials!
Hi...I love watching you demonstate techniques in quilting....My question is I'm making Jenny Doan's version of the Card Trick with the secondary design tucked in between the cards....How can I square these blocks up without ruining that corner design???
Thanks for showing perfection! I needed this! Want to know how big is your table and the height? I have a nice size, but it tends to gather odds and ends ...I'm working on making places for them! Thanks again for your help!
Hi, again Rob - I don't understand how you get your ruler straight on a piece of fabric so long that you can't line up the ruler on the mat lines covered by the fabric, as in your quilt. Add, I'm getting ready to learn how to make borders to finish a quilt top. Same deal. I can double the top and cut one side straight matching a on the mat, but I have no idea how far off I am on the three other sides, and cutting into those sides too far will ruin the blocks. Do you have a video specifically on attaching borders? I haven't been able to find one yet.
Brilliant tutorial Rob - really appreciate you doing the demonstaration on a huge quilt. Do you have a video on a pieced quilt backing? I see someone has asked this question too
After checking out MANY sites on how to square up and cutting my quilt and being so discouraged with the instructions, I finally found your's. Rob, this is exactly what I really wanted! Thank you so much! Incidentally, your quilt is amazing.
If I had to read the instructions or someone explained to me how to square up a quilt, I would not get it. Not without the visual, it's just nice to see you demonstrate the details. Thank you, Rob. ✌️
You are a quilting rock star! Thank you for simplifying the squaring up process. I don't need to submit my quilt to a Padukah quilt show, I just need to get it done. 🎊🎊🎊
Keeping half of the ruler on the already cut edge is an excellent tip I've never heard before. This video is very helpful. Thanks Rob!
Finished is always better than perfect. I need to put that everywhere!
Thank you so much for explaining this in a simple way. I have gotten so confused from different people trying to explain or watching it on You Tube. I am going to watch all of your tutorials!
Oh my goodness! You’re the best! I’ve watched 10 videos on squaring a quilt top and started to go cross eyed. Within the first 2 minutes of your video, I was understanding everything! Thank you thank you!!!
I've looked at this before, and now that I've finished sashing my quilt, and and am ready to learn to add borders, I want to square up what I have, considering one of the blocks is a whopping half inch off from the line up on one of the sides of the quilt. This ought to help. Next step is my experimenting with quilting, in which case stitch-in-the-ditch would be easiest, and then comes watching Rob again to square the whole thing up. When I first bought fabric, expensive as it is, I thought I would never dare cut it. It was one thing sewing apparel with pattern tissues - easy peasy - but it's another cutting squares and Flying Geese without being able to see what they will turn into. So thanks, Rob. You have more space than I do to use for cutting, but I'm sure I'll manage by rolling excess, as I had to do while pinning sashings.
Thank you so much!! Big is always so much harder to deal with and people always show you how to trim a small item, which is no big deal. However, when it comes to a king size quilt it is a huge deal! And it was great see you in Houston!😍👏
Thank you for this wonderful tutorial. I have watched many tutorials to learn how to square a quilt but never truly got it until this one. I will FINALLY finish a quilt now. You are awesome. Keep them coming.
Thank you!! Everyone shows how to square a little quilt. I needed this help. You’re great!
Rob, THANK YOU for doing a large quilt. You did a wonderful job explaining and show how it’s done.
Thank you, Rob! This is the best tutorial on squaring up a quilt! You're the best.
Mesmerized by your quilting design as I watched you square your quilt. I feel your free motion quilt design is telling a story, much like a beautiful painting. Thank you for your awesome teachings Rob
Hi Rob, I do more sewing of clothing and was never really interested in quilting until I found your videos! They are so informative and just really well put together! Keep up the great work!
Thank you Rob. I am just a beginner at all of this and watching your vids gives me hope to try and make my own quilt one day.
Thanks for this video of squaring a large quilt. I'm making a king size quilt and was dreading the squaring up process. You made it look much simpler than I thought it would be!
Thank you. I pieced a top a few months ago and I'm now ready to quilt it but needed a refresher on how to square it up.
Just wanting to say thank you!
Your directions are clear & easy to follow & your a treat!
Easiest to follow tutorial for squaring a quilt that I've ever seen. Thanks!
Super tutorial. But loved seeing your free motion quilt work up close on your quilt. You are so creative and so inspiring.
This was one of the best videos for squaring a quilt. I’m squaring my first quilt and it’s a big one. Thanks for all the specifics and the little tips (only use half your ruler!).
Thank you SO MUCH for demonstrating on a large quilt! I just finished quilting a king sized quilt and was dreading the process of squaring it up. You make it look super easy so I don’t feel as intimidated now!
Hi there Rob hope you and your family are well Amazing tutorial 👏👏👏👏👏👏 thanks for sharing xxx
I SO needed this!! Thank you so much! That is an absolutely amazing quilt too!!
Perfect timing! I JUST completed free motion last night.
This was wonderfully helpful. Thank you
Awesome tutorial and I actually followed your directions to a T and my quilt is perfectly squared. There is a first time for everything! Many thanks, Rob!
Awesome tutorial, Rob! Squaring up a larger quilt isn't very easy, for sure!
Perfect timing!!! I’m fininshing up my very first quilt this week and am so thankful you covered this. Thank you, thank you!!
This was super helpful! I love that you showed a small example and then a full size quilt!
You are awesome! I am not a man, but I have subscribed and look forward to many more videos. I saw the one where you basted this quilt. Great video!
You squaring video was the best to follow. Glad I found your TH-cam!
Thank You Man Quilting 😀for the how to square up a quilt! I’m making the Mommy & Me baby quilt and am at that stage, it is working nicely!!!😀👍🏻
Btw: Google directed me to you for how to square up a quilt.
Thank you Rob! I've been quilting for years, but till have things to learn. You are clear, careful, and not boring!
Best video I've seen on squaring a larger quilt and you show one video that does not have boraders Thanks again.
you are a easy teacher to understand love your videoes
I've really never been instructed as to how to square up a quilt....this was a great video....thanks!
Rob, thank you so much! Was trying to figure out how to square my quilt top, only off by about 1/8 inch. Now I’m going to forget that and square up after quilting! Have learned so many techniques from watching your videos. Thank you, thank you!
I always love ur videos. I was so happy that I found this one. I just finished my quilt top. :-)) TY
Thank you for such easy to follow directions for us New quilters...and your optimism and encouragement!
What.a great tutorial thank you. From the UK I have only just come across your videos. New to quilting, for my second large quilt I pieced the backing fabric. For cornerstones on the last fabric strip before binding, I put checkerboard squares in the four corners. Trying to square up the quilt before trimming and binding, I lost some of the last row, making the quilt backing a little out of balance with two cornerstones. Oh how I wish I had seen your videos before!! I have now watched several videos from you and each one I have come away having learnt at least one very useful technique. Thank you again. Regards Alison
Thanks Rob! I have 4 king size to square and bind. This will be a great help!
Thanks for this one, just finished building my first quilt. Pieced it, quilted it and now about to square and then bind it.
Thank you! thank you! I was terrified to square my quilt and I followed your directions and it came out perfect! You rock.
Thank you again Rob for another great video. Wishing you & all your family a very Merry safe Christmas & a wonderful New Year. Come visit us in Australia ! Xxx
OMG: I love this video. I love your delivery here. Thank You So Much!
I love your geometric designs. You definitely have an eye for it!
This was great! I loved that there was the sample size and then the larger quilt instruction! This made me hit the subscribe button!
Thank you SO MUCH! I'm a beginner and it's helped me a lot! I LOVE your channel!!
💕💓❤️💓💕
Great way to square up a quilt! Thanks, now I can have my sisters watch. Its hard to explain over the phone to them. Thanks for another great video!
That quilt is gorgeous 😍
This is great! I have always tried to keep my squares square, and that was always hard to do. This looks so easy. Thank you!!
Loving those colors!
Thank you so much for this! I agree everyone shows a little quilt or a small block. Now to the table to square my quilt!
Thank so much for making all the scary things about quilting easy.
Very good of squaring up a large quilt!! Thank you
I have always been taught that you square up the blocks then to keep the top square you measure your borders at 3 or 4 points across the quilt on all sides and average them out, cut at that average measurement and then sew them on the quilt and this process will keep the quilt square.
Thank you Rob. Love your videos.
Thank you for sharing it will be helpful as I am starting my first large quilt plus you made it look incredibly easy.
Great tutorial! I wish I had a large table. But I do have a large mat and I put it on the wood floor in the kitchen. I just never knew how to square up! So I just did the best I could. Thank you for all the tips.
Love this video. Needed to square up a baby quilt before I put on the outside border. I found your video very helpful & in the nic of time! 😁
Could you show how to square a quilt without borders. Enjoyed learning your technique with borders.
Jodie Seila x
Thanks for the great video and your positive attitude. It helps when I don’t even want to LOOK at my quilting projects on some days. lol
Loved the music, too.
I use a small dumbbell on my quilt as I’m squaring it to stop it slipping off my table and on my yard ruler to keep pressure on it. I find what throws my quilt out of square is areas where it’s more densely quilted than others.
Rob is everything very good teacher xx
Beautiful quilt.
Hi, thank you very much for the information, now I know how to do this! Your quilt is beautiful & I love the design.
Thank you for all you do, your teaching is clear and your programs are fun to watch (never boring).
Clear and precise instructions with speech when required, great workmanship and skills show in your work as you have produced a beautiful quilt. Thanks for sharing Rob 👍
Brilliant video, I can't thank you enough, you made it so easy to understand, wonderful!
Thanks Rob, this helped a LOT.
This was an awesome tutorial. My long armer is the one who trims my quilts after they are quilted. What I desperately need to know is how to square up a quilt TOP before it goes to the quilter for quilting? A tutorial on that would be wonderful!!
It is such a great video, I will use your method the next time I finish a quilt. The two that I made this year got the I am doing the best I can job...LOL
Thanks so much!. . I was just searching yesterday. How to square a large quilt in small space!
Great demo! Thanks for the detailed directions.
Really needed to see this, thanks Rob!
That was amazing. Now I know what I’ve been doing wrong all these years. Thanks for the how t9!
This is just what I needed! Thank you.
This helped so much. THANK YOU!
Oh, thank you for demonstrating this on a large quilt instead of a postage stamp like most! That was very helpful. It looked like the outer border was not quilted...? Again, great demo. Thank you so much! 🙂
Do you have a video of how to piece backing fabric for a quilt? I'm about to start sewing my blocks and could could some advice on piecing back coz I'm getting close to that, probably still a couple weeks out since I only work on my quilts at night for 6 hours, 4 days a week while my husband works lol
Thanks so much for showing your technique.😅
Thank you. Lots of good information.
Is there a video for the Man Sampler? Or a list for which blocks are in it and videos for those? Thanks.
Thank you so much! You really ease my worries. Do you have any tips on how to square a quilt with 8" border? My ruler isn't wide enough
Rob how do you keep your ruler from sliding everywhere? I've tried everything to keep that ruler from sliding from hand placement, putting sticky dots on the bottom, to practically standing on top of it. It is very frustrating getting your cut going then the ruler going slightly to the left or the right in the middle of a cut. Thank you so much for your tutorials they are fun to watch and have been a blessing.
I love the quilt in this video do you have a video on the quilt also thanks for the video I've learned so much by watching your videos
Can you make a video on how to fix it if you haven’t cut one squared up properly? Thank you for all your teaching and sharing 🥰
Hey Rob, this is the first time I have tuned into your channel. Great video! I really like the quilt you were working on (the big one). Is there a pattern for this? It is awesome!
Thank you for this video! It helps. so what happens when you do all this and you measure the top and bottom persay and there is a say a half in difference. How do you fix the difference or for a small amount do you just let it go?
If you have a double border, would you square up the quilt BEFORE you attach the second border, or square up the quilt AFTER you attach the second border?
You're tutorials are always so helpful! My question would be about using a round table for basting. I don't have a square or rectangle table to use. Is it possible to make a round table work?
Rob, I'm trying to make a bargello quilt and I'm so frustrated. I've cut so much off of both ends of my strip tube trying to square it up that I don't know if I even have enough to finish the quilt. Every time I cut it gets more uneven. Do you have a tutorial on how to square up strip tubes? Should I have squared it all up before I sewed it into a tube? Thank you for your great tutorials!
Excellent!
Hi...I love watching you demonstate techniques in quilting....My question is I'm making Jenny Doan's version of the Card Trick with the secondary design tucked in between the cards....How can I square these blocks up without ruining that corner design???
Awesome help! You rock!
Thanks for showing perfection! I needed this! Want to know how big is your table and the height? I have a nice size, but it tends to gather odds and ends ...I'm working on making places for them! Thanks again for your help!
Hi, again Rob - I don't understand how you get your ruler straight on a piece of fabric so long that you can't line up the ruler on the mat lines covered by the fabric, as in your quilt. Add, I'm getting ready to learn how to make borders to finish a quilt top. Same deal. I can double the top and cut one side straight matching a on the mat, but I have no idea how far off I am on the three other sides, and cutting into those sides too far will ruin the blocks. Do you have a video specifically on attaching borders? I haven't been able to find one yet.
Brilliant tutorial Rob - really appreciate you doing the demonstaration on a huge quilt. Do you have a video on a pieced quilt backing? I see someone has asked this question too
Hello! Rob does not currently have a tutorial on how to piece the back of a quilt, but we will pass along the suggestion to him! Thanks!
How did you know I was just now struggling with this!
Can you put a pattern up for the man sampler? I absolutely love the design and I would love to try to make it myself!
Thank you! That was very helpful. :)