Tag Archives: Beginners’ quilt

How to piece a backing for a quilt

This month on the blog, I am writing about making up a quilt. If you are new here (hello!), you need to know that last year I published instructions for making twelve blocks 12 x 12″ square, one each month. In the last couple of weeks, I have explained how to add sashing (between theContinueContinue reading “How to piece a backing for a quilt”

How to add borders to a quilt

I hope that followed instructions given each month of last year to make a sampler quilt. You can find links to all the blocks in the December blog post here .Last week, I told you how to put sashing strips between the blocks, to separate them out and to highlight them. This week the postContinueContinue reading “How to add borders to a quilt”