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Binding
Tips!
Close up version of blindstitch:
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Double-Fold
Binding:
Carefully
remove basting threads or safety pins. Baste around quilt 3/16"
from
the edges if desired. Trim batt and lining even with the top. It is really important that the
corners of your quilt be square at 90
degree angles.
Cut
binding
strips 2 1/2" wide on lengthwise or crosswise grain of fabric. Place
end
of two strips perpendicular to each other forming an 'L', right sides
together.
Stitch diagonally and trim to 1/4". Join all strips end to end. Press
the
seam allowances open. (Trim the little triangle points that stick out)
Cut
the beginning of the binding strip at a 45°angle. Turn the edge in
1/4" and press. Fold the binding strip in half lengthwise, wrong sides
together, and press. Lay the binding strip, longer side down, on the
right
side of the quilt top, aligning raw edges of the binding and the quilt.
Begin sewing at the second fold, stopping 1/4" from the first corner;
backstitch.
Remove the needle from the quilt and cut the threads.
Fold
the binding up, then back down even with edge of the quilt. Begin
stitching
at the edge of next side, backstitch to secure and continue sewing.
Repeat
at all corners. When nearing starting point, trim binding at
double-thickness
fold and tuck the end into folded strip. Continue sewing and
backstitch.
Blind stitch the folded edge to the tucked strip.
*note* I apply my binding with
the walking foot on my bernina machine. I also use a seam guide that
screws onto the throat plate of my machine, and push it right up
against the side of the walking foot. This gives me an extra "fence" to
help keep my seam allowance even as I am wrestling with putting binding
on a big unwieldy quilt. My binding actually comes out at about 3/8"
wide instead of 1/4" wide (because the walking foot is wider than my
1/4" foot) so I pivot at 3/8" at the corners instead of 1/4". Because
my seam is 1/8" wider, I have a very nice full binding when I turn the
binding to the back of the quilt to stitch down.
Turn
the binding to back of the quilt and blindstitch to the lining,
covering
the previous line of stitches. Fold the corners as shown and
blindstitch.
Close up version of blindstitch:
I
work my stitches from
right to left on the quilt back. Keep the
needle parallel to the fold on the binding, and the stitching line on
the back of the quilt. Take small stitches, directly across from where
you exit the previous stitch. Pull thread. The thread travels inside
the fold of the binding, and along the stitching line on the quilt
back. When the thread is tightened the stitches should be
virtually invisible.
Questions
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