How to Sew Binding Ends Together
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I have been using this video tutorial very successfully. Link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUEy9NXOK5c
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All three of the tutorials are showing a very good way to close binding ends, but why must you cut off so much of the beginning. When I lay my beginning of the binding on the quilt, that will be where that end will be when I finish. No cutting of that piece.
I open the end and make a triangle. Fold down the top so that the open end of the binding is even with the raw edge of the quilt. This gets pressed well, and this is your sewing line when you get to the end. Refold the binding strip and start sewing about six inches from that tip.
After you sew around the quilt, cut the end off at the bottom of that triangle, which is exactly the width of the binding. Now your binding strip is overlapped just the right amount.
Pick up the ends and place right sides together at the correct angle, just as you would sew any binding seam. Sew across the tip from corner to corner and you have the perfect binding finish.
It's the triangle at the beginning that makes your job easier. No other measuring necessary.
I open the end and make a triangle. Fold down the top so that the open end of the binding is even with the raw edge of the quilt. This gets pressed well, and this is your sewing line when you get to the end. Refold the binding strip and start sewing about six inches from that tip.
After you sew around the quilt, cut the end off at the bottom of that triangle, which is exactly the width of the binding. Now your binding strip is overlapped just the right amount.
Pick up the ends and place right sides together at the correct angle, just as you would sew any binding seam. Sew across the tip from corner to corner and you have the perfect binding finish.
It's the triangle at the beginning that makes your job easier. No other measuring necessary.
Last edited by maviskw; 11-07-2018 at 10:08 AM.
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