Do you stitch around quilt before trimming and binding
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Originally Posted by TonnieLoree
I stitch! I've had some that didn't have enough quilting around the edges to keep it flat and ended up with puckers or pleats when I applied the binding.
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Now I'm confused. How close to the edge do you sew so that the stitching isn't cut off when trimming your quilts? I have never heard of this and would like to know about it. It may be a good practice to get into.
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I baste around the edge of the quilt, about 1/8" from the edge because I was having stretching issues when I applied the binding. It also makes me feel more confident about the general stability of the quilt.
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GOOD QUESTION! - I recently asked a gal that has quilted for over 60 plus years the same question as you did. She said she used to stay stitch all the way around a quilt. If it was large and heavy, she sewed around twice.
NOW, here's the interesting part. As she is older she found if she serged around her quilt she could straighten and close edges for easier binding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Some older quilts always start to frazzel and fray at the binding but not hers as less wear and better prep for binding.
Duh! Have to pull the old serger out and start using her method. She also said, if quilt is straight, she leaves knives down.
Anyhow, I plan to adopt this method. Especially after seeing the way my quilts are treated, dragged sopping from washing machines and thrown into driers, makes me weep or want to kill. But stay stitching IS the way to go in my opinion, especially with flannel quilts, no matter what design.
Cindy
NOW, here's the interesting part. As she is older she found if she serged around her quilt she could straighten and close edges for easier binding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Some older quilts always start to frazzel and fray at the binding but not hers as less wear and better prep for binding.
Duh! Have to pull the old serger out and start using her method. She also said, if quilt is straight, she leaves knives down.
Anyhow, I plan to adopt this method. Especially after seeing the way my quilts are treated, dragged sopping from washing machines and thrown into driers, makes me weep or want to kill. But stay stitching IS the way to go in my opinion, especially with flannel quilts, no matter what design.
Cindy
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