adding border to a quilt as you go piece

16 years ago

I have made a "Take Five" quilt using the quilt as you go method. I'm very happy with whatt I have so far. Now I'm at the point where I need to add the border but I'm not sure how. Anybody got any ideas? Do I sew the border pieces together (I have 3 different colors to add)and then add the batting and backing? Or what?

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pirate_girl

16 years ago

Here's how I was taught to do it at the GREAT classes I've had at my LQS. One joins the border to the main panel w/ zig zag stitch (including an extra edged sashing abt a finished 1/2" wide). After doing the zig zag, turn this sashing down (the same way one does a binding) & hand tack it down to other side of the zig zag to conceal it (the joining seam).

More detail: Assemble the border section (its front, batting & backing) as one normally would & do whatever quilting that has (let's pretened it's cables, going down the side borders), leaving at least an extra 1/2-3/4" all around the border component. Take the main part of quilt & position the border section butted up against the main part's edge of the appropriate border (I do the sides first, then top & bottom). So you've got the rights sides up of both, the main panel & the side border, raw edges next to each other. Next, attach a sashing you've made that's roughly 1.5" folded in half so you've got a 2-ply 3/4" sashing to the sew to the main panel, raw sides together, include this in position when you do the zig zag & it does both at once (attaches sashing to main panel & zig zag also joins border to main panel).

There now -- clear as mud??

Comments (8)

redpenny
16 years ago
I will be interested in what others have to say when I do QAYG I have never added a border what I have done is squared up my quilt and binded my QAYG.
Red
wanda_va
16 years ago
I made this quilt/bedspread as QAYG. I made the hanging sections with the broderie perse flowers, and was ready to sew them on; then my mother said she wanted to use it as a bedspread instead of a quilt. So I added a 5-6" border on the top and bottom of the hanging section to make it long enough (they are the sections quilted with hearts).

I just sewed the border sections to the hanging section (using QAYG, with sashing), and then attached them to the main quilt in the same manner as the individual blocks are joined--with sashing. This is a queen-sized quilt and I made a similar quilt in king-size. Using the QAYG method is much, much easier to quilt than the "conventional" method.

That's my sweet mother in the picture, BTW.
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chickie1
Original Author
16 years ago
Thanks for the info. I think i got it now. I couldn't figure it out. Wanda, I love the bedspread you made for your mom. I can't wait to get "good" at quilting so that I can make beautiful quilts like this one.
Pirate Girl... I forgot about using a sashing. thanks for explaining the process.
toolgranny
16 years ago
I love your quilted bedspread, Wanda. And thanks for the tips pirate girl. I might try this one day.
Linda
pirate_girl
16 years ago
Beautiful quilt Wanda, but am curious to see the other side & how the seams were handled, in other words, what sashing finished like.

To see mine, pls. got to PhotoBucket.com & look up KRSternberg. Then see the Album called Nissei Africans.

On the front side (black & orange), the sashing is bright orange. On the back side, the sashings are green (outer sashes which attaches the borders) & inner sashes are multi-colored stripe (& cover the seams connecting the individual panels to each other). I hope seeing the pix (even tho' I wish they were much closer up), will clarify the sashing concept.
wanda_va
16 years ago
Here's the back of one of my QAYG quilts - the sashing looks the same as the front (except that one side of the sashing on the back is hand-sewn).
nanajayne
16 years ago
Very pretty. YOu did a wonderful job. I keep trying to get the courage to try that. Do you use sashing on the front as well as the back or are the blocks butted togeather? Jayne