Do you stitch around quilt before trimming and binding
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I usually do a small zig-zag stitch very close to the edge. That way I don't worry so much about the backing not being caught in the binding. I do mostly echo or stitch in the ditch quilting, so my edges are rarely quilted.
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I did with my second quilt. I didn't bind my first quilt (tucked the edges under 1/4" and sewed a straight stitch). I had probably read somewhere that sewing around the edge would make putting on the binding easier. I guess it made it a little easier as I had some sort of guide to line my binding up with.
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I don't but I'm going to start. I find that if I am sewing the binding on with the machine I have problems with the edge of the quilt not getting caught in my sewing. Therefore it is sticking out of the binding. The last couple I have done I did the binding by hand and liked the look a lot better.
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