What Do You Do With Left Over Binding?
04-22-2015, 04:46 AM
#32
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I often wind up a fairly long leftovers of bindings and mine are also 2 1/4" wide. I save them and when I need a scrappy binding, I just sew them all together or I add them in to other pieces of binding I'm cutting to make a really neat looking scrappy binding. I also use them for pot holders or other small projects. I never toss them unless they are really small pieces.
Same here. I always do 2 1/4 bias bindings, so trying to use them for scrap squares would have the wrong grain. I just save them up, and eventually sew all the different colors together to make a scrap binding for a kids quilt.
04-22-2015, 05:00 AM
#33
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I save it and use it on my scrappy quilts of which I do many. Anything less than 4 inches, I toss. But that is my rule and does not have to be yours. Most of my scrap binding is in the 8 to 15 inch length category so I just use it as it is.
04-22-2015, 05:33 AM
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binding scraps
I have a lot of scrap bindings too, I am going to make a quilt top out of them in strips. I seen the idea somewhere and thought why couldn't I do this and use up those left over bindings. I am not good at measuring things so I do a guessamation on how much I need for bindings. Always have leftover. So will let you know if it works.
04-22-2015, 05:36 AM
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Make scrappy bindings on your scrappy quilts. They look cute. Here are a couple of mine you can see:
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and here is one where I chose only blue bindings, but still scrappy:
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and here is one where I chose only blue bindings, but still scrappy:
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04-22-2015, 06:26 AM
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Every once in awhile, will make scrappy binding for a quilt, and will use some of it that way. If you wanted, you could trim the strips down to 2"...they were called Noodles back when Debbie Caffrey wrote her book Noodle Soup...they can be used like Jelly Roll strips.
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