Borders, Bindings & Finishing Touches, a DVD presentation by Christine /Porter (from our collection of quilting DVDs)

Christine Porter teaches, lectures and judges throughout Britain and the United States. In this DVD Christine demonstrates simple and effective techniques for choosing the border fabric, ideas for pieced borders and attaching the border accurately.

She is often asked how, once you`ve finished the quilt blocks and joined them together, you can add neat and attractive borders and bindings that will enhance and finish your new quilt beautifully.

In this DVD Christine demonstrates simple and effective techniques for choosing the border fabric, ideas for pieced borders and attaching the border accurately. Christine shows different methods of preparing your quilt for machine quilting, and includes various machine quilting ideas to ensure a consistent distribution of quilting over the quilt to help it hang straight. Then comes the binding and Chris demonstrates an easy way of adding that finishing touch which makes all the difference to the final outcome. Finally, since it may become a special family heirloom, a beautiful quilt deserves a pretty and informative label, so Christine shows an easy way to make and attach a pretty quilt label. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced quilter, Christine Porter will help you take that next step in transforming your new quilt from an attractive collection of blocks to a beautifully finished quilt that you will be proud to own, display and pass to future generations.

DVD, approx 65 mins