To make straight-grain binding (pictured above), the binding strips are cut from selvage to selvage, sewn together into one long strip and pressed in half. Knot one end of the thread. Binding size is a personal preference, but there are some general guidelines. This will make attaching your binding much easier, and when your quilt is laid out on a bed or folded neatly, it will look professionally made. Using a 1/4″ seam allowance, sew the binding onto the quilt, stopping 1/4″ before the corner of the quilt. This means that a single fiber is running along the length of the edge of your quilt and is taking the majority of the wear and tear. Secure the stitches … We started off with the super easy and adorable cheater quilt, made quilt binding, and took a trip to the Quilt Market. It's the step many quilters forget about and most beginning quilters aren't even aware of until they reach this stage of the process. Stitch the binding tape to the quilt sandwich using a ¼â€ seam allowance. Set the binding seam by pressing your stitching in place. Start sewing 8-10 inches from the end of the binding. Turn the quilt and fold the binding at the corner. In this tutorial, I made a twin-sized quilt, so I cut my fabric into 4-1/2 inch wide strips. (Look at the picture below.) You’re going to need this room to attach the ends of your binding strips. Place the binding on your quilt top, aligning the raw edges of the binding with the edge of the quilt. Pick one corner of the quilt and fold the binding into a mitered corner, then pin the miter in place: Make … Create the binding After the batting trimming and squaring of the quilt is complete, trim the excess backing to 3/4" from the edge of the quilt. For this quilt binding method we will attach the binding to the back of the quilt first. See more ideas about quilt binding… This will give you a nice miter when you do the second part of stitching the binding to the quilt. Double Fold Binding (sometimes called French Fold Bias Binding) This is the most used and durable quilt binding. Thread a hand needle with a thread to match the binding fabric. The size of the binding is determined by the size of the seam allowance used when the binding is sewn on and how loosely or tightly the binding is folded to … Yep, it got sucked into the “when I have time” black hole! Create Mitered Corners and Pin Binding in Place. Also, bias binding is stronger and tends to last longer. Press the binding on the front of the quilt, it makes a nice and crisp fold for the binding. The quilt I’m binding for this post is one I designed as a free pattern for APQS almost 2 years ago. . Give it a shot! Sewing quilt binding may not be the most exciting part of making a quilt, but it is the icing on your beautiful cake – so it’s best to take the extra time and do it right. The video below will demonstrate how to sew binding on a quilt step by step. This technique also requires careful batting trimming and squaring of the quilt, and I found it easiest to pin the backing upon itself to keep it from getting nicked. Start off by cutting your binding fabric into strips. Fold binding down again so that binding raw edge makes a horizontal fold that aligns Visit . But now you have a little boxy flap of binding in the corner. Wrap the folded edge of the binding to the backside of the quilt, creating the mitered corners, again as we described above. Quilt binding is something that I do for so many of my projects and something that I get asked about a lot. If you have a walking foot you can use that, I am using an old vintage 15-91 Singer and the walking feet I have don’t really work well with it so I just use a regular foot. To miter corners, stop stitching about 1/4-inch away from corner and backstitch. Binding a quilt is the process of surrounding the raw edges of fabric and batting of your quilt with a long strip of fabric called binding. Lift the presser foot and rotate the quilt so that you can stitch to the outer corner of the quilt, stitching a 45* line. Start in the middle of one side of your quilt. Backstitch a few stitches to lock the seam. 5. Visit our site to check out the largest selection of precut quilting fabrics in the world! Press the binding away from the quilt: Then fold the binding to the front of the quilt. Binding size refers to the width of the finished binding as it appears from the front of the quilt. Some quilters have the patience and talent to sew the binding strip on the front of the quilt, flip it to the back, and then stitch next to the folded-over binding on … This way, you can watch that binding edge on the front and make sure you get a really nice stitch … These strips may be cut on the straight grain or on the bias. Line up the raw edge of the binding to the raw edge of the quilt. Binding for a quilt may be made from strips of fabric that match or coordinate with the fabrics used in the quilt. 5. Using a ¼â€ seam allowance, begin to sew the binding to the quilt. Quilts that have curved edges require bias binding. Flip the quilt over and begin pressing the binding to the reverse, extending this fold all the way to the end of the binding … We will use this unsewn binding to connect the beginning and ending of the binding strips later in the tutorial. Fold the binding to the back and keep it in place with pins. TIP: For a satisfying “plump“ binding, we recommend cutting the batting and backing a scant 1⁄8″ larger all around than the quilt top. Double-fold binding is cut six times the desired finished binding width plus 1⁄4" to allow for turn of cloth (the fabric take-up resulting from folding and wrapping binding around the quilt edge). Make sure to check that the binding tape and quilt sandwich are even throughout. At that point, stop sewing and leave the needle down. As an object, quilt binding is the fabric that wraps around the outer edges of your quilt sandwich - the top, batting & … Quilt binding is usually the "uggh" part of quilting. With the quilt top face up, press the binding away from the quilt, working one edge at a time. Fold the excess toward inside, making sure the two edges meet into a nice intersection point (see the red arrow). Begin in middle of one side of quilt. Oct 23, 2020 - Explore National Quilters Circle's board "Quilt Binding", followed by 95201 people on Pinterest. Continue stitching until 1/4″ before the quilt edge and stop, leaving the needle down. Bias binding is a durable way to finish a quilt. Fold the binding down so that the raw edge of the binding is still parallel to the raw edge of the quilt. Leave about a 6-inch tail. This is the little 45-degree angle fold in the corners of the quilt that looks super cute on the front and back and also allows you to stitch the entire long binding strip all the way around the quilt in one pass. Pivot the quilt and sew diagonally off the edge. Straight binding is easier to cut and apply. Attach binding to back of quilt. 1. (Reminder: clip binding to quilt, sew the binding, stop sewing 1/4 inch from the end, clip thread, make your corners, start over) Stop sewing and backstitch when you’re about 8-10 inches from your starting point. Place the binding on one side of your quilt close to the middle matching the raw edges of the binding and quilt together. I normally wouldn’t quilt to the edge using this method and instead quilt 1” away from the edge or so…but it was an afterthought with this little quilt. Prepare and sew the binding to the quilt (by machine) in the manner described above. It is made from a double layer of quilting fabric using either the bias or straight of grain. On FB a while ago someone was asking about how we all sew binding onto a quilt and it made me think of how I have different methods, of course if it’s a show quilt or magazine quilt I sew the binding to the front and hand sew onto the back, but if it’s for anything else I use 1/4″ “binding” tape from the warm company! Sewing on a pieced binding is the same as sewing on any binding. You can secure the binding on the back stitching by hand. Finish sewing your binding 1/4″ before the end of the quilt. I like to start attaching the binding about 3/4 of the way down the long side. Binding Your Quilt: Ok. Today we have a quilt project brought to you by Rae from Made by Rae for easy quilt binding.. Rae is always sewing up new projects … If the quilt is 24″ by 30″ then you could use a 8.5″ square … When you bind by machine, you want to start sewing the binding on to the back of the quilt and bring it around to the front. Quilt binding has two recognizable definitions: it is both an object and a process. Align the binding along the edge of the quilt, and mark on the binding where the quilt edge ends. We hope you enjoy! As a process, quilt binding is the act of sewing the binding tape to the quilt (which will be covered in a future post). Using a walking foot, you start sewing your 1/4″ seam roughly in the middle, leaving six inches or so of your binding strip unattached to the quilt. Align the raw edges of the quilt sandwich and the binding tape. With quilt binding, the warp and weft of the binding are running vertically and horizontally. When I am piecing my blocks together, once a block is complete, I like to go ahead and “square it up” or make sure it is a perfect square to keep things uniform. The trickiest part of binding a quilt is turning and folding the binding strip to create nicely mitered corners. There are good tutorials for that here, here, and here. To work around the corner of the quilt with the binding, turn the quilt and fold the binding up and away from the edge you have been sewing. The difference between binding by machine and binding by hand is where you’ll start sewing. So you’ve basted and quilted your quilt and you know what kind of fabric you need, so let’s get started. Then, fold the strip down in the new direction you will be sewing so that the folded edge of the binding is even with the edge of the quilt. Leaving a 12″ tail of binding free, match raw edges of binding strip to raw edge of quilt top. Before you bind, you need to somehow “quilt” your quilt. 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