Machine quilting- do you attach binding to back or front first?
#44
#45
Super Member
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Central Wisconsin
Posts: 4,391
You can also machine sew to the front and machine finish from the front also. The process used is "Stitch in the Ditch". You have to press the front seam open well so you can see that seam line ditch. Turn the binding to the back and use School Glue to hold the binding so that it just covers the seam line by about 1/8 of an inch. Glue the corners well also. Then turn it to the front and stitch in the ditch. It goes so fast, and if it is glued in place well you don't miss spots. You could also put a decorative stitch on the front this way, too, if you wish.
#46
Super Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Round Rock,Texas
Posts: 6,135
Susan,
I sew the binding strip to the back and turn it over to the front and then stitch it down. I make my quilts entirely by machine as I can't do all the hand sewing. I also have carpal tunnel syndrome and can't do all the hand work.
If anyone has a problem with me doing the bindings like I do; I suggest that they could do all the hand work if they'd like to.
Sharon
I sew the binding strip to the back and turn it over to the front and then stitch it down. I make my quilts entirely by machine as I can't do all the hand sewing. I also have carpal tunnel syndrome and can't do all the hand work.
If anyone has a problem with me doing the bindings like I do; I suggest that they could do all the hand work if they'd like to.
Sharon
#47
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Southeast Michigan
Posts: 339
Since I taught myself how to quilt before there were classes or the Internet, I looked at quilts my grandmother had made. She pieced by hand and machine, but quilted her pieces by hand. Before she married, she was a seamstress. She was very fussy -- so I was never tempted to ask her "how" to quilt. Twenty years later, I regretted that.
That being said, she sewed bindings on the back of her quilts, and hand stitched it onto the front. I have one of her quilts that the backing was made larger that the front and became the binding that was hand stitched to the front. That binding has not worn as well as the ones w/individual bindings stitched on last. Knowing that, I stitch the binding onto the back, and hand-stitch it to the fronts of my quilts.
That being said, she sewed bindings on the back of her quilts, and hand stitched it onto the front. I have one of her quilts that the backing was made larger that the front and became the binding that was hand stitched to the front. That binding has not worn as well as the ones w/individual bindings stitched on last. Knowing that, I stitch the binding onto the back, and hand-stitch it to the fronts of my quilts.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
SophieHatter
Main
15
11-05-2019 02:34 PM
craftybear
Links and Resources
1
10-26-2011 03:25 PM
irma tapia
Main
77
03-26-2011 11:24 AM
craftybear
Links and Resources
3
12-25-2010 09:49 PM