Mitered corners,Help needed, newbie
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You might take a look at this video from Eleanor Burns. I usually baste my border corners, then press the seam open and see if the seam runs exactly down the 45 degree line. Then I can adjust it or if it is perfect, I then stitch it with normal stitch length.
https://vimeo.com/27028498
https://vimeo.com/27028498
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I learned from the 4-part series by McCall's Quilting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hha94oe3XA
It goes through everything in great detail & without suggesting you need to buy all sorts of expensive binding tools in order to accomplish a beautiful binding. If you have an acrylic ruler, a pair of scissors & a threaded needle, you can make a beautiful mitered binding with this tutorial.
If you'd prefer to do the whole thing by machine, rather than hand-finishing the binding, Quilty has a good video on how to start:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6fnAvuUBHA
Sewing with Nancy shows how to machine finish (unfortunately, while plugging a bunch of the tools she sells). Skip to minute 5:30 to just get the info about machine stitching down the binding to finish it off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcVah9OfHxk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hha94oe3XA
It goes through everything in great detail & without suggesting you need to buy all sorts of expensive binding tools in order to accomplish a beautiful binding. If you have an acrylic ruler, a pair of scissors & a threaded needle, you can make a beautiful mitered binding with this tutorial.
If you'd prefer to do the whole thing by machine, rather than hand-finishing the binding, Quilty has a good video on how to start:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6fnAvuUBHA
Sewing with Nancy shows how to machine finish (unfortunately, while plugging a bunch of the tools she sells). Skip to minute 5:30 to just get the info about machine stitching down the binding to finish it off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcVah9OfHxk
Last edited by Bree123; 10-09-2015 at 09:54 PM.
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