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Making Quilt Borders

Varying your quilt's borders can make your finished quilt look so much different. You can finish your quilt with straight-cut borders, mitered borders, pieced borders or borders with applique and other special techniques. Use these quilting tips to choose and construct the borders of your quilt.

How to Measure and Sew Straight Borders on Your Quilt

Measuring straight borders and sewing them to your quilt is an easy process, but there are a few guidelines you should follow to make sure the borders fit right and do the job they're meant to do to support the edges of the quilt.

Make Quilt Borders with Corner Squares

Learn how to make quilt borders with corner squares or blocks. Butted borders with corner squares are quick and easy to sew to the quilt.

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