What Do You Do With Your Leftover Binding Strips?
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I save them and sew them together in a long strip. this will make one big piece of material then I will cut out dunkards path from it. I will use some of the strips for half of the dunkards then some plain material for the other half. I saw it on TV. I can't think of the woman's name - big name in quilting. She had some lady on her show that did this. Not with binding strips but just cut strips and sewed them together until she got a big sheet of material.
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i am going to sew them together and make a strip quit for charity. I will probably sew them together on the diagoal to give a bit of character. I even save the small triangles that are cut when sewing them together and put two together in a square for the center of a string quilt.
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I have used them to bind scrappy quilts, but lately I've just been keeping them in a bag. When I have enough I'm going to make a bunch of log cabin-type blocks. I'll use a foundation and lay a square on it, and then surround it by the pieces of binding.
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Originally Posted by RkayD
have you seen this ModaBakeShop tute? would work great for binding scraps sewn together...
http://www.modabakeshop.com/2011/02/...-roll-rug.html
http://www.modabakeshop.com/2011/02/...-roll-rug.html
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I seem to have an irrational fear of not having enough binding for a planned quilt so I measure it out a bit too generously. Doesn't help that I don't actually measure it, I run it around the edge of my quilt with ample inches allowed for mitering corners. As a result, I too end up with leftover binding. Sometimes as little as 18" but usually much more. I also have them saved in my scraps in a ziploc baggy marked "bits 'o binding". I will use them in a scrappy quilt as they are already pressed right sides together and ready as binding. I can't be bothered with pressing them flat again to use as strips in piece work, I get enough of those when I am doing regular cutting for patchwork.
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someone I know saves all kinds of scraps and either uses them to make stuffing for dog beds for the shelter or cuts them very small and puts them in a basket to hang in a tree for the birds to use in building their nests. Who would have thought??
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