Anne Needs A Break
04-24-2017, 09:45 AM
#23
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Ridgecrest, CA
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It really is nice to know that I am not the only one that periodically has my brain take a vacation and leave me behind. Sometimes that cup of coffee needs to be taken WITH the adult beverage (and a nap is good).
05-03-2017, 08:11 PM
#24
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Texas
Posts: 983
Connecting the tails at the end of Binding
Thank heavens it was an easy fix. Just annoying. :-) When I first started quilting I joined the binding with straight seams. Then after watching a few episodes of "Simply Quilts" I learned the joys of the diagonal joining. So easy, but it seemed half the time I was making the diagonals going different directions.... It was driving me crazy, how could I not remember from one piece to the next how it was suppose to go? Guess we all get in a hurry and try to go too fast. Now if I could just get down connecting the two ends when sewing it on to the quilt I will be very happy.
Jeri
05-04-2017, 06:05 AM
#25
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Sonoma County, CA
Posts: 4,299
I have developed a method for sewing the strips together that works for me. I work on my mat and pin them while flat (angled seams, of course). I always had some seams on the top of the binding strip and some on the bottom when sewing strips together that were the same on both sides. Too much frustration!
05-07-2017, 06:02 PM
#28
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Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Gilbert, AZ
Posts: 985
Quiltingcandy and oldtisme... I always hated the final join as well. Just found Sharon Schamber's binding video. She glues the final join together before sewing. Nothing moves and it turns out right every time. I have learned a lot from her videos. (On YouTube).
05-15-2017, 07:57 PM
#29
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,585
Jenny Doan, Missouri Star Quilt Company, demonstrates joining the final strips on The Ultimate Quilt Binding Tutorial -- toward the end of that tutorial, she tells (and demonstrates) how to join the final seams of your binding so that it will always fit. I still make mistakes -- I always will because I'm human -- just like all the rest of you. I sometimes get furious at myself when I make a mistake, but getting furious doesn't accomplish anything. We have to just laugh, back up a step and fix the problem!
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