Wavy Quilt Border Prevention Tutorial.
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- My friend Melony is honoring me with a lesson on how to put quilt borders on like a pro. Prevent puddling and extra fabric on the borders when quilts are going to be quilted. Yes, people there is a technique to doing borders. All these years and I was doing them wrong. Who would of though?
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You are the first person that I have ever heard explain why you use the measurement from the center. The fact that the ends stretch more makes so much sense. Thanks!!!
Yeah I didn't know either! I would think that if each block is the same its all the same! But as you could see my quilt was larger in some side than others! 💕
I don't know why, but this is the first border-waviness-prevention video that makes perfect sense to me. Thank you!
That is awesome! I'm glad you like it and that it help you! Lorena
Me, tooo! You ladies really made this make sense! Thank you so much!
Oh my goodness! I’ve watched so many tutorials on how to do this and this is the first one that made sense to me ! Thank you so much ! I was so frustrated and now I get it !! I’m so happy !!!
A tip... remember to "sew with a baggy bottom" . It helps me remember. Great video! Thank you!
Yes.. it feed the fabric...thank you for watching..
You are a riot! So real and honest. You talk just like my friends I quilt with... and your friendship with Melody is obviously endearing. What nice friends. Although I knew parts of what you cover, I picked up a couple of new tips and I completely enjoyed myself watching your video. Learning to quilt is all about the back and forth between those who know and those who are learning. The generosity of your spirits is wonderful to watch. Love your bug in the corner. I have never subscribed to a channel, but I think I may just to see what you come up with next. And I plan to watch all your old ones. Hope your husband treasures you. Thanks much
Yoda Momma wow! Thank you for your wonderful kindness !
This is fabulous! Borders makes so much more sense. Just did this on one of my quilts and it works like a charm! Thank you!!!
Brilliant. This is one of those simple things that you never think of and when you see the video you're like "Duh...why didn't I think of that?" I mean I KNOW my quilt is off square after I add a border because it gets wonky when I press. Now I will change how I add borders. Thank you Lorena and Melony!
ABSOLUTELY THE BEST TUTORIAL!!! Probably one of my favorite videos you have done- COMPLETE and through! So much information and very real time. I loved how you used and actual quilt top and went through all the reasons why- excellent 💯👏👏👏
This video was amazing because Lorena kept asking Melony all the questions that were popping into my head! Tutorials always show a perfect finished quilt sample from an experienced quilter - this was SO SO SO geared for me, a self taught newbie willing and wanting to learn to get better. Thank you for the AWESOME video!!
Thank you so much... I was horrible at this part of quilting. I would just sew the border down never knowing why it was off... I'm so glad you like the video
This is a greatly needed video for many quilters/piecers. I feel fortunate to have had my mom start me on my quilting path. She taught me to do this and I always pin my borders after matching centers and quarters. Good borders can fix/hide a lot of piecing issues. ;)
Muchas gracias Lorena, this was so helpful! I just sewed on my first border and it was wavy but your Video taught me how to try again tomorrow! I really like how Melanie spread the border fabric across and then cut it instead of measuring it and then measuring out the border fabric. Thank you again!.
Bless you ladies. I have just finished wrestling a wavy border quilt (I made it) on my longarm. I needed to learn how to make sure my borders have no fullness, and this explains it perfectly! Thankyou so much! I did not realize how important this technique is until I got my own longarm and started quilting my own quilts. Oh those wavy borders!!!
Excellent video. Great tips. Thx for posting the written paper comments, too. Very helpful. Love your channel! Gonna keep binge-watching tonight!
This is very helpful to get everything squared up. Friends are precious aren't they. Thanks to you both!
Yes.. I had only experienced it on longarming never knew this was a problem until then..
This is such good information! I had no idea why it mattered to measure from the center. Also, great tip about putting the fabric with the extra fullness on the bottom against the feed dogs. Thank you so much, Lorena and Melanie!!
Thank you so much for your clear explanation of why to follow this method and the demonstration of the actual sewing process. I just did the border for my second quilt and I very pleased with the result. I had to ease in quite a bit of fabric so all the tips were put to good use.
I learned to quilt by reading old quilting magazines back in the 90's. Never did they teach this. I've been doing it wrong forEVER! I'm just shaking my head thinking of all the quilts I had to block to get them flat before they went on the longarm. Sheesh! Your videos are wonderful tools for learning! Bless you and thank you so much for sharing the knowledge!
That’s how I learned too following magazines 😂😂😂 I feel old!
I only learned about this when I got the longarm
This video was so explanatory . I learned a lot!! Thank you ladies!
That was a great tutorial. You talked through the whole process very well. I’m able to fully understand it now, I’ve never had horrible problems with wavy borders, but I’ll try this next time and I hope they’ll be perfect.
Lorena, You and Melony are so cool, and I Love watching you!
Thank you Deddie.. Melony is wonderful.
Thank you so much for this tutorial ladies! It is the easiest one I have seen on how to add borders correctly.
Amy
Seth Gadapee thank you for your wonderful
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This was the best explanation. Thank you! Thank you!
Perfect explanation. So glad I found this!
thank you. glad you like it.
Great video!!! You are so lucky to have a friend like her!!!
Yes your so right
Wow! Didn't know this😳 great video! Thank Lorena friend? And wonderful Lorena❤😍
Awesome video Lorena and Melanie! I was taught the method of measure/average but I like this method better-no measuring tape or math needed. Even though taught correctly, I've been doing the "lazy way" like you Lorena because I didn't realize how severe of an effect it would have on quilting. I'm so glad I watched your previous video before I took something in to my quilter. She is a no no nonsense kind of person and would probably not quilted it. So thanks for saving me a big embarrassment! 🌝
I’m so glad you liked it!! Your quilter would of probably fixed it! 😊
Great tutorial. I learned a lot. Thanks for sharing. I love watching your tutorials.
Thank you so much.. Peggy.
My first and only quilt I had quilted by a long armer I was told they had trouble. Now I know what they meant. I finally finished another quilt and was concerned about the wavy borders. I know what I did wrong and will be more careful the next time. I will be quilting this myself on a domestic machine and will use the hints you gave in another video to see if I can repair the damage. Thanks so much. Very helpful
Thank you so much..
Thank you thank you thank you. As a pretty much self taught quilter I was never sure how to measure for the borders. Melony and Lorena you are the best!!
Your so welcome.. I appreciate your comment!
I am so happy!!! All my quilts had this problem and I knew I measured and pieced correctly. THANKS SO MUCH
Ashley Leatherbury Me too. Who would of thought the fabric would stretch!?
omg! lol i just put boarders on a quilt top not measuring from the center and now i kinda want to rip them off and start over! thanks for the video im a subscriber now :)
Korben Rodriguez thank you.., I know me too ... I never thought it took that much work!
Super to see that I am doing my borders correctly
Yes I had to learn cause I was Dnv mine wrong!
Thank you for really showing us all of the steps and explaining it so well. Now I feel like I can attempt my first border.
Jeanene W Your so welcome... I didn’t know how much work it was to do a border either.. but my friend was such a great help.
I enjoy that you have such a good friend that is so nice with her explanations. It was a joy to watch you two together, I learned a lot watching this video. Please do more this was the best.
Charlotte Moore Thank you so much!!! Yes my friend is a blessing..
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS! Now I see the difference of everything that has to do with the borders! Very valuable info that I, a beginner quilter wasn’t aware!
Thank you so much for watching!
I lay my quilt on the floor and measure in the center, then I cut the border to the measurements which is a real pain because my cutting table is 23 inches long and I have to fold the fabric and do a bunch of math when all this time I could have just cut the border while I was already on the floor measuring my quilt.
Thank you. I can't wait to do it this way instead.
Thanks for this video! I subscribed last week & saw this older video. I'm excited to hear you can do this for sashing too because I was just about to do my first big sashed top & didn't know you can do this so they all fit. Thank you both for sharing!
Thank you for watching I really appreciate your comment!
Thanks so much because I am the person who has the wavy borders all the time!
All these years I have been doing them wrong too. Thanks so much for this demo!! It may seem like more work, but makes for a squared up quilt top and that is always a good thing.
I was doing them all wrong, too! I never knew there was a skill to doing borders! Yeah it's more work! But your long armed will love you! Thank you for your comment!
I have a little mid-arm frame and I know exactly what you mean.
Thank you, great information!
This is awesome!!
Love this!! Thank you!! No more wavy boarders!! Yay!
Rhonda Cormier Thank you for your comment!
I just kind of accidentally stumbled across one of your videos yesterday & I am so glad I did. I love your videos & this one in particular really helped me :-)
New subscriber,
Cheryl
That is wonderful !! Thank you for watching! Lorena
Thank you x2. Now this makes sense, I too would put borders together than add to my quilt. Love your video's.
Love this! Thank you for the tutorial.
Sharon Ray thank you for watching!
thank you so much for this video. you're explanations made so much sense!
Lalie Mode I'm glad you liked it!
Thank you ,this video was a big help to me!!!!! Love your tutorials.
I'm so excited you like the video and that it helps!! Thank you for watching!
Thank you for this video, never knew to do this. I love the pattern, I know it as Repeating Crosses and this is the one I use as a gift all the time. LOVE IT and THANK YOU.
Maja Raynor thank you for your wonderful comment!
Thank you Lorena and Melony. Great job and great insights. You make it look so easy.
socalgal007 Teresa G Acuna thank you so much for watching !
Thank you for sharing. This is how I do my boarders and it works great.
I used to do my borders horrible... but I'm so glad my friend showed me right.
Brilliant, delightful and informative
Kristine 4Give365 thank you so much
You two are awesome
Thank you so much
Just found this video and it is so helpful! Thanks!
I’m glad you like it!
You guys are entertaining to watch!
Thank you so much !
Lorena , Hello ! Thank You so much for this video. It will help me out with my quilts alot. 👍💖😊
your so welcome.. thank your for your comment.
Very helpful. Thanks.
This is so helpful!!!! Thank you so much!!
I’m glad you like it!
beautiful quilt
Very helpful! Thanks!
Thank you so much for such a great detailed video. It's the best border instruction video I've ever seen! You actually explain why you have to measure through the centre. I recently finished a quilt with 3 borders and it sure looked pretty but was way off. Doing the binding is horrible😭 Hopefully that's a thing of the past from now on. Thank you to you both for taking the time and effort to make this. Needless to say I've subscribed. God bless!
I'm so glad you like the video. I so appreciate it.
I find that if the borders are cut with the grain of fabric there is less stretch so less waviness. Also starch before cutting.
Great video. Thanks.
ffanny2retire Thank you!
Cut and zoom is my style....guess what I'm going to do from now on? Thanks for this video. I've never seen this method before.
Yes my too.. when someone told me my borders were put on wrong i didn’t understand until. I started longarming.
Yes my too.. when someone told me my borders were put on wrong i didn’t understand until. I started longarming.
I like to put my sides on first then top and bottom.
Good video and good friend
Yes, great friend! Thank you for watching! Lorena
that is a beautiful quilt top
Thank you!
New sub, love you already
Trish Johns Thank you! What a blessing!
that first border is bias, which you use to match patterns. Mitered borders are the corners.
Great tutorial and your quilt colors and pattern is absolutely stunning. What is the name of the pattern and fabric please just simply beautiful!
THIS WAS A GREAT CLASS!!!! (yes I'm yelling)
Thank you for this wonderful comment!😊💕
My mom is from the "old school" of how to put borders on all that miter crap and measure in 3 places. So after I've been quilting now for about 10 years and I've won several ribbons thank you very much. I ask why would you miter your borders ? Are you mitering the corners as well ? Most the time I get a no, so then they try to sell me on this theory that it looks better, really I say horse hockey on this, my main complaint is that by using miters you are instantly adding bias and what does bias do ? I adds fullness to the quilt so rock on with straight line stitching for borders, then we get to the famous measure 3 places divide and cut your border, they she (my Mom) pins the son of bitch onto the quilt and eases as needed, the very definition of easing is ADDING FULLNESS !!!. I finally have convinced her to do it my way which is the body of your quilt should already be pretty good if you have done a half way decent job, next I just slap those bad boys down and with each layer the border fabric and the quilt I sew it on making sure it is leaving the backside of the needle still in a straight line, and I have an ever so slight tautness, not pulling, but not flying freely about. Anyway not to toot my own horn, but it's me so I'm going to toot I rarely ever have any fullness in my borders. And I recommend this to all my clients especially if they are notorious for having wavy borders, I just tell them it is a shame they've done such a good job with the quilt to only let the borders beat you. Most take my advice and some don't hey I'm not God :) Ok I just saw right off the bat about those mitered joining of borders, so I guess I'll go back and watch the rest, yes I wrote this with out watching the full video first:)
P.S. Just now made it to minute 4:45 and you used the dreaded EASE word. Had to stop. I would make videos, but honey I'm know my strong suits and I have a face and body made for radio if you catch my drift. I'm a 50ish grumpy old man that lives alone with my little dog Nikko.
Never made a mitered join, no one ever told me so it always looks gorgeous, whatever works. But the top being tighter than the border is terrible for a long armed, don’t do it. Borders need to be tighter than the top. And I always mitre the corners, so easy to do!
would love that pattern too xxxx
+Tineke Williams I placed how I did the patter on the facebook group! I also have. Tutorial on how to make the block! Lorena's Quilting
facebook.com/groups/1706825309565319/
+Lorena's Quilting I looked and it won't tell me the requirements or the cutting guides, boohoo!!
Trouble is when the border is longer as the long arm quilter will curse you! So I make sure I divide the excess or shortage in half and do that measurement both ends so even!
+Tina Wemyss awell we will complain privately hehee!
That's for sure but you did a lovely job xxx
Hi Lorena; I have enjoyed watching your videos you explain them so good. I love this cross quilt that Melony and You are showing how to pin your borders on. Can you tell me where I can get the pattern for it? Thank You for all of Your hard work on showing the videos.
I made that pattern years ago!!! Let me see where I have it join Lorena’s quilting and I will post a pdf of it for you to print out I have a tutorial on the block itself ...
th-cam.com/video/s9o9QajGzK8/w-d-xo.html This is how you make the block .. please remind me if I get side tracked! Ok I think I have a blog on it too let me find it.
Hi Lorena, I am new to your channel, love watching your tutorials, and listening to you accent. I was wondering if using Wonder Clips would be better than pins. Pins I feel take up some space and don't allow for true fabric spacing. Please give me your thoughts and keep up the great job.
I do think wonder clips would work better. My friend did say the needle did take some space.. I never thought that wonder clips will keep the fabric together better.
Make a video on mitered multiple borders. Also quilt as you go borders.
okay let me see.. what I can do.
Hi ladies. I just finished a quilt that was measured just like this, but there was a piano key border that I quilted heavily and obviously encountered stretching ( I do my own quilting on a domestic machine) . Of course, I get the piece done and it’s beautiful but the borders are a bit wavy. Heartbreaking.
It’s okay as she washes it or the quilt is washed it should take in that waviness
Such a great video! May I ask what the pattern is called? The quilt is absolutely beautiful and I'd love to make one as well. Thank you!
It’s called a repeating cross .. I think I have the pattern or parts of a pattern on a blog post .. called a threadofscarlet.net or put my name and blogpost it should come up
Did you do any trimming around the quilt top before you measured and pinned the border on?
No. I trimmed blocks before I built the top !
I readily understand the need to ease a quilt top to fit a border when the quilt top edge is longer than the measured border piece, but I've never understood the purpose of easing a longer border to fit the quilt top. What is achieved by doing this? Why not just sew the longer-than-necessary border onto the quilt top with no easing, and then trim the border to fit the quilt top?
I'm thinking its because you want the border sides/the quilt to be truly square overall as opposed to just fitting, previously I would do as you have said but I think the concept is aiming for a square overall as opposed to just a side that fits one edge, and another side fitting one edge. No idea if I'm making any sense. But I've always just sewn and trimmed and sometimes have small creases in my borders so there must be something to it all.
I am very cramped for space, therefore, no room to lay my quilt completely flat. any suggestions. . .please!
Paulette Hessen you can lay it on dining table fold it in half and use the folded area as you center .. so that you can get measurements you need or measure center and then cut that measurement in your fabric .. you can also fold in half the fold again.. which means you have to fold your fabric to get measurements .. but in a whole measure the center of your quilt to get border measurements .. the center of quilt on the vertical and horizontal is where is the least stretch on a quilt .
Question.
Do you cut your border strips the length of the fabric or across the width of the fabric?
I used to really not pay attention to how I cut the fabric but I tested to see if me showing off the quilt would be a reasons my quilt ended up wavy and I did this video .. I cut now where the fabric isn’t stretchy I don’t remember if it on the straight grain? th-cam.com/video/7fU8VuWPhUE/w-d-xo.html
I used to really not pay attention to how I cut the fabric but I tested to see if me showing off the quilt would be a reasons my quilt ended up wavy and I did this video .. I cut now where the fabric isn’t stretchy I don’t remember if it on the straight grain? th-cam.com/video/7fU8VuWPhUE/w-d-xo.html.
Great tutorial! What's that quilt pattern?
+Sharon Leach Hi this is the block I created my own patter. th-cam.com/video/EHEQLAEzu9A/w-d-xo.html I will see if I can find pattern and give it to you.
+Sharon Leach I started a facebook group! And I placed a patter design of the quilt and how I created the blocks. I will also write out the patterns! The facebook group is Lorena's quilting
facebook.com/groups/1706825309565319/
Would you Do the same method with your binding strips?
No.. once the quilt is quilted the quilt will be stable and the quilt cannot become wavy again
would this work for mitered corners as well?
Sandee ESTES-PRICE yes .,. But what ever width your border is you have to add that space to each end-- so example your border is 3inches you add that to each end of each border side. Which each border increases by 6 if your border is 3 inches wide ... pin center then pin the end giving yourself 3 inches over hang.. then start pining the rest by different sections like video to ease in the quilt -- sew your border but come in 1/4 easing in the quilt . The your mitered section last., I hope this helps.😊
Come in 1/4 on the corner when you start sewing.. you come in on every corner of your quilt 1/4 -- it then gives you the space you need to do the mitered corner .
Are you going to send a pdf of what you done
My whole quilt top is waves it doesn't lay flat
It could be that the top stretched if you have a good longarmer it will be ok. I would measure all sides. Both vertical and both horizontal if it’s less than 2 inches difference it will be fine if it’s more you need to redo borders so you can work it in I will add a video it help
th-cam.com/video/7fU8VuWPhUE/w-d-xo.html
I can NOT believe she is sewing over the pins, that is a huge NO NO!
I notice you are sewing over your pins. Not a good idea. That can create burrs on your needle and damage the interior of your machine.
Barbara Plautz I didn't know that! Thanks for your comment! I didn't even notice the needles were still on my fabric.
Your information is good, but please talk less and get to the meat of the information sooner