Place it on each corner and notice how the interior pieces on the bottom and sides line up with the ruler lines. When it lays flat it’s a good indication it is remaining square.Īssuming you squared as you assembled your pieces, then all you need to do to square the finished quilt is use the largest Omnigrid ruler (or similar). As you piece sections – lay them on the floor. Wavy borders are usually caused by not verifying the accuracy of each piece as you go AND/OR not cutting the border length and widths based on the actual interior quilt length and width. Square each piece, block, section as you go. Sometime that is fast… and yesterday I took a tiny bit off at a time and it took an hour to square the quilt.ĭo you have any great tips on how you square your quilts?

Then I pull out the larger carpenter’s square, lay on the floor to eyeball a line, and slowly adjust until I get the quilt measurements to all agree. I then measure the quilt length on the right, middle, and left. Typically I take a conservative first pass around the quilt and then measure the quilt width at the top, middle, and bottom. I do not slide the carpenter’s square all the way to where I stopped the last cut instead I offset it down about 2 inches and make sure the carpenter’s square inner edge is aligned with the straight edge of the quilt and perpendicularly aligned with another grid on the mat. Then I move the mat under the quilt, keeping the newly cut line on a grid. I start at a corner and using the square, take my first pass at getting the corner square.

So the image above is really the summation of how I work. Squaring a Quilt – The Beauty of a Carpenter’s Square

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