One of my favorite ways to dress up my quilts is by adding not only the exterior border
but this interior. But it’s a three dimensional flange. I’m going to teach you how in today’s
quick tip. Let’s get started.
I’m going to show you today in the quick tip, how to sew on the yellow flange. That’s
right, this is that three dimensional border and the outer border in the same stitching.
And I do that for a couple of reasons. I firstly do it because I want my flange to look really,
really parallel. And the easiest way to get two perfectly sewn lines is to do it once.
So basically I fold this edge, the yellow is a one inch strip like this. It was one
inch. It was then folded in half and it was set into the seam allowance while I captured
the blue, all at the same time. I stitch on the blue through the yellow with a standard
quarter of an inch all the way from the bottom up to the top. And then what we’re going
to do is we’re going to trim this off to make sure that it is the perfect length. So
I can do it this way. I’ve already pressed this open to show you so I’m going to do
it while it’s pressed open. And I’m also going to tell you the other reason that I
do this not only for the straightness of that yellow but also so that when I’m finished
pressing this open you don’t see any sewn line that could peek through if I”d stitched
the yellow on first and then the blue because I’m just not that accurate. And it doesn’t
need to be that important. So basically I want you to address your quilted
project by putting on your yellow flange and your blue outer border or your inner and outer
borders on your long sides first. The reason we do our long sides first when adding borders
is mathematically it makes our short side of the project longer. I’ve just added about
4 ½ inches here. So that helps with the math. Let’s call this the A side or the A step.
I have both of these on completely. But now what I want to do is I want to add my blue
border on. And when it’s finished I don’t want any yellow at all in this seam allowance
here.
So here comes the B side or the second trick we’re going to do. So once again I have
prepared, prepared! I’ve prepped out my flange. And even on this one I’ve trimmed
off any selvedge so this is a clean working edge. And I’m not going to use it quite
yet so it’s over my shoulder ready to be used. I’ve also cleaned up this blue edge
and I’m going to put it right here right sides together . And as I go back to the machine
right now I am not going to stitch the yellow in. So we’re going to handle this a little
bit different on the B side than the A side. I’m going to come in here. I have a quarter
inch seam allowance set up.And I’m going to take a couple of stitches and lock it in.
This is going to be a finished seam here. And then I’m sewing towards that first yellow
flange. And I’m making sure that even in the seam that it’s folded properly. But
before I go over the seam what I’m going to do is I’m going to take this flange here
and I’m going to slide it right underneath this yellow flange that is already there.
I’m going to fold the blue right back over the top and I’m going to sew that in. And
I’m just now making sure that all four edges, the blue bottom, the blue top and the two
yellow edges are lined up. And I’m going to sew almost to the very end. Now as I sew
into this last few inches, I’m making sure everything is lined up. And now what I’m
going to literally do is I’m going to stop sewing about a half of an inch from the needle
to where the flange lies. I’m going to take my scissor. I lay my scissor blade right along
the edge of the seam allowance between the blue and the yellow fabric. I snip it so it’s
the perfect length. I tuck it underneath the original. I fold the blue over and I sew to
the very, very end. So I backstitch.
Now what we’re going to do is we’re going to go ahead and press it. Of course you could
put your second side on if you wanted to. But I want to show you how this turned out.
So I come back in here and I’m pressing away from the project but I”m pressing the
flange itself down here. Beautiful. And then of course the last thing we’re going to
need to do here is come back in and lay that cutter on there and trim this off. But I just
want to point out again this is how I do it, where I get the flange three dimensional on
the inside but I never allow it out here in the seam allowance as well. And so I hope
you’ve really enjoyed this quick tip. I would love to know what else you would like
to learn in the comments below. We’ll see you next time at Man Sewing.
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