Never like my binding
#11
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
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I've never had a problem with ironing it in half. Is there a problem I don't know about?
Here is a quilt I'm stitching binding on now. You can see front and back binding.
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Here is a quilt I'm stitching binding on now. You can see front and back binding.
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#12
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: San Joaquin Valley, California
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I always iron the 2-1/4 in binding in half, use a walking foot on a trimed quilt, and use the foot as a guide. I stitch about 5 or 6 inches check to see how it would be on the other side because it matters what batting you use. I also quilt and attach binding for others for a fee, some people use very low loft batting and some high loft poly so you adjust the width of stitch
I fold the corners so that I get a very good miter.
I fold the corners so that I get a very good miter.
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#13
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Minnesota
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#16
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Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Upstate NY
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First of all I baste all four sides of the quilt using a walking foot. I cut my binding 2-1/4 inches wide and fold it in half and iron it using a litle "best press". I will cut my batting leaving about an half inch or so all around. Using a walking foot I sew the binding on using a 1/4 inch seam. After it is sewed I check to see how much batting I need to fill in the binding. Cut the remainder off and I'm good to go. Works well for me and fills out the finding nicely.
#18
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Melbourne, Florida
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I always trim my quilt leaving a 1/4 inch. This 1/4 inch seems to help in the binding process. If you send your quilt out for quilting make sure that you ask for 1/4 trim otherwise they will trim flush
#19
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Southern California
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There are LOTS of techniques for doing binding and it is important that you find what works best for YOU! I do cut my binding 2.25" wide and press in half attaching it using my 1/4" foot. I found a technique that Patrick Lose has used on F&P TV show on PBS has made my corners even sharper. I think that Jenny of MSQC has also evolved to use the technique of sewing off just a 1/4" before you would pivot and sew at a 45 degree angle off to the corner of the quilt. I haven't found it posted on u-tube yet.
#20
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 1,066
Great advice, Pechish! previously I read the suggestion on the board about not 'iron the binding in half' and it works great. My bindings now are so nice that at my last retreat I was doing one and the ladies oohed and ahhed over it. That probably was one of the most important things I have learned from you wonderful quilters.
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