Binding with glue
#21
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To make your own fine tip glue bottles: Buy 1 bottle of Elmer's WASHABLE school glue and 1 disposable click pencil with a long narrow tip. Take the Elmer's glue bottle and pop the orange top off. Then take a scissors and snip off the white guts that protrude up from the bottle. Then snip a small amount off the top of the orange cap...( a little less than 1/4"). Screw the bottom tip off the pencil and shove it up through the orange cap creating a nice fine tip to the glue bottle. Screw this cap onto the glue bottle and you're ready to go. I put a pin in it when not in use. I use this for binding...esp. bias binding. Works wonderful for putting in zippers too. Apply a fine line of glue and heat set with your iron...doesn't even need pins. And the best part is that it washes out...
#23
Thank you for this wonderful link i just learnt so many little tricks it will cetainly help my little hexagon as far as threading needles and keeping the thread in the hole. FANTASTIC the binding and the miter corner double :thumbup: :thumbup:
#29
I use gluesticks...very cheap at the $1 store, 3 to a pack. No waiting for it to dry, no seeping through the fabric, and water soluable. It doesn't gum up my machine needle and can start sewing right away. I press the binding, glue, and repress each area and by the time the quilt is done with this, it's ready to stitch down. I machine sew my binding to the back and bring it to the front, press to just cover the stitching, glue, repress, and sew down. Really cuts down on the amount of time everything takes to do and looks nice.
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