binding question
#22
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Our guild does all of our community quilts this way. We cut the backing about 1 1/4" larger all around after it has been quilted. Fold it in half once and then fold again down to your stitching line and top stitch neatly. Use a decorative stitch if you wish. You can even mitre the corners with this method. This was the method that my now almost 90 year old mother-in-law taught me as it was the only way she knew how to bind quilts, so it has been used for a long time. It seems to wear well and this width of binding makes it hard to tell that you haven't used a separate binding. It is also much faster to complete and no one but a quilter would even notice.
#24
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: San Bruno, CA
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The method used where the backing is brought to the front is called self-binding. Penny Halgren gives an explanation with illustrations at this site. http://how-to-quilt.com/cms/index.ph...=143&Itemid=39
It shows how to do the corners to give a mitered look.
It shows how to do the corners to give a mitered look.
#25
I never have. I know that the stitches on the underside of my quilt would be crooked and unsatisfactory ... so I always secure binding by hand. I once wrapped the quilt backing around the front edge of a quilt so binding and back were one piece of fabric, but even then I sewed it by hand.
#28
[quote=PatriceJ]the only time i don't bring the backing fabric to the front as binding is if it wouldn't also look good as a traditional binding.
i make sure to fold it double before bringing it to the front, just as i would traditional binding.[/quote
I always do it this way, partially because it is fast and partially because I hate hand stitching!!! Whenever I enter one of my quilts to be judged, I know that they will count me down for it. But I don't care. Sometimes I use a decorative stitch & sometimes just a straight stitch. I think it looks fine.
i make sure to fold it double before bringing it to the front, just as i would traditional binding.[/quote
I always do it this way, partially because it is fast and partially because I hate hand stitching!!! Whenever I enter one of my quilts to be judged, I know that they will count me down for it. But I don't care. Sometimes I use a decorative stitch & sometimes just a straight stitch. I think it looks fine.
#30
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
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That is how I have binded all my quilts, but I also like the idea of bringing the front to the back... I love that pink baby quilt. I am waiting a few more weeks to find out what my second grandbaby will be, then off to make another quilt for a baby.
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