Curling Ribbon Quilt Border Pattern

One main fabric in a medium tone one.

Curling ribbon quilt border pattern.

20 do any of you have a pattern or instructions on how to make a twisted ribbon border for a quilt. Quilt border curling ribbon. I thought this would be wasting time and fabric so i did a few sums and because my blocks were accurately pieced i quickly worked out what measurement the inner borders needed to be before i added them to the quilt top. This free quilt pattern from mini happy quilting is the ribbon border.

The outer edge of this ribbon border pattern is often finished with a plain binding scallops or prairie points. Stitch together one background a and one light a as shown at right. Victory quilts making patches for ribbon border for more detail follow directions beginning on pages 164 substituting ribbon border measurements. Draw diagonal lines on wrong side of background squares for little points.

My suggestion relates to borders such as tipped bricks or braids where you have to cut off the points 1 4 from the seam line a teacher showed me a couple years ago that it is better to draw a pencil line where the cutting line should be and then sew the next border on or sew this border to the quilt before you cut off all the points. How to make a twisted ribbon quilt border design step 1. Choose your fabric carefully for this design. Thread tools 02 27 2011 11 56 am 1.

Make a twisted ribbon border using qst s quarter square triangles fast easy and accurate technique to make a beautiful twisted ribbon border. 4 1 2 twisted border blocks. Twenty 12 blocks twenty 6 blocks 38 5 squares 26 4 squares twelve 12 blocks twelve 6 blocks. Download the free quilt border for your nextquilting project.

Construct a pattern by folding a square of paper in half diagonally then in half again along the other diagonal. This basic quilt border shape is nine inches square but the size could be adjusted as required to make up the desired width and length of the finished quilt. Using the predominate quilt color for the large pointed border and using complementary colors for the three small colored blocks this border blends neatly with any quilt s color scheme. Pattern instructions for twisted ribbon quilt border.

Stitch together two step 2 blocks into a pair watching orientation as at right. You will need three fabrics. Be sure to match the orientation. Reply 02 27 2011 12 01 pm 2 magpie.

The inner border was a spacer and would need to be trimmed to fit according to the pattern instructions after they were sewn into place.