Machine Quilting Beautiful Borders
Discover the beauty of borders! Join instructor Eva Larkin Hawkins for an exploration of how easy it can be to frame your quilts with gorgeous motifs.
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Discover the beauty of borders! Join instructor Eva Larkin Hawkins for an exploration of how easy it can be to frame your quilts with gorgeous motifs.
Getting Started
Meet your instructor, Eva Larkin Hawkins, and get off to a running start as you learn how to select and prepare fabric, and how to audition and pin your borders before quilting.
Templates vs. Stencils
Learn about various types of templates and stencils, and how each one is made. Working with purchased or homemade materials, you’ll learn how to create the designs you want and transfer them seamlessly into symmetrical patterns.
Spacing the Motifs
Spacing can make a huge difference in your designs! Eva shares a mathematical formula that can be used to determine the exact number of repeated sequences you’ll need for any border length. Practice along with Eva as she demonstrates measuring, marking and repeating various border patterns.
Transferring & Stitching the Designs
Discover how to transfer and stitch Eva’s diamond, heart and dart designs using wax paper, contact paper and other methods. You’ll gain professional tips as you go, including stabilization methods and ways to ensure your design looks perfect before you start stitching.
Continuous Border Designs
Explore all of your options for creating corners as you practice enlarging and reducing your design, calculating the placement of your patterns and reconciling the differences between the top and bottom border designs.
Side Borders & Feathers
On to the side borders! In this lesson, you’ll learn how to work with curved and straight feather shapes as you practice repeating patterns and making stencils for the side borders of your quilts.
Top & Bottom Borders
Discover techniques for fitting feather designs into the top and bottom borders as Eva illustrates marking, measuring and transferring techniques. You’ll learn how to integrate designs that start in the center or corners, and how to adjust the size accordingly.
Stitching the Outer Border
Practice stitching the outer borders as Eva helps you navigate curved feathers, straight feathers, corner and center designs and more. You’ll finish the class with helpful stitching techniques and inspiration for new projects!
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