Elvira's Star QAL#5

Elvira's Star QAL has encouraged many a newbie to get over their piecophobia and start piecing. Take a look..

This is getting exciting. So get all your star blocks  ready for here's Elvira's how-to on putting together the final touches to your special quilt:

Finishing the quilt:

Since I’m making a tablecloth, I will not use batting for my quilt. I put a border in lime green and yellow at the back.

I’m using mitered border which gave a very nice finish to the tablecloth. For the mitered border I used tutorial from CHERRY MENLOVE (http://www.cherrymenlove.com/crafts-how-tos/2010/07/how-to-make-my-heirloom-midsomer-madness-tablecloth.html) which is awesome. She gave a very clear instruction on how to do it, so please go and take a look at her blog if you want a mitered border. And also you can see how she finished her patchwork tablecloth which exactly what I did mine.

If you want to make a regular sandwich and binding quilt, there are few tutorial which I found it easy to follow:

1. Finishing your quilt guide (https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwkeQk36_fJGMjk3ZTYxZDUtN2U0Ni00Y2MzLWEzODktYzE4ZTdhMzJhMWM5/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1) 

2. Crazy Moms Quilt (http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.in/2008/10/binding-tutorial.html)

3. Jaybird Quilts (http://www.jaybirdquilts.com/2010/01/perfect-binding-tutorial.html)

4. Video Tutorial on Binding the Quilt from Missouri Star Quilt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GVA05MxXTU&feature=related)

And this is the result :D

So, that's all...I hope you enjoy the ride and can't wait to see what you're all making..^_^

Happy Quilting

Elvira

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