I have a binding foot for my Brother, but I haven't mastered using it, and you have to pre iron your strips.
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I have a binding foot for my Brother, but I haven't mastered using it, and you have to pre iron your strips.
if one makes LOTS of quilts, $150 doesn't sound like much. I don't make that many, though. And I actually like the binding process
Nancy in western NY
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I am with you Nancy. I quilt because I like the process and am not in the mass market business. The binding is one of the relaxing aspects of quilting for me, seeing it all come to fruition.Originally Posted by QuiltnNan
I don't mind doing binding, when it minds me.
GOD bless!
I have one for my Bernina. It works great, but does take some practice on the corners. I don't have it down pat yet but don't mind doing a little hand finishing on the corners when the rest goes so quickly. I have seen someone do the corners perfectly. I think it just takes quite a bit of practice.
It sounds like the bias maker that used to be really popular for machines. I recently saw one on Sewing w Nancy; first time I had seen one in years. It does just what you said and I guess if it was large enough it would do the binding. Now my mind is spinning.
Judy
The Martelli system is really great if you do a lot of quilts or if you have arthritis in your hands and don't do hand bindings or something like that. It doesn't do front and back at the same time - you still have to sew the raw edge of your binding to the front of your quilt.
You can get just the Stitch n Ditch foot and spend a lot less than buying the whole system. This foot really does stitch in the ditch - but only along an edge, not out in the middle of the quilt. (adjustable)
It does mitered corners - you have to stop and start again, but there is a set of three sizes of Minute Minders that you can buy to make the precise miters for you.
The Zip Bind tool sets the size of the fold and the Zip Guns clip onto your measured binding to hold it in place, but these aren't strictly necessary to help you make good bindings.
Their online store is kind of confusing, but here are the binding tools: http://www.martellicatalog.com/mm5/m...tegory_Code=ZB
And here are their You Tube videos:
http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...l2.2.1.7-1l6l0
I have the Kwik Bind System and it does sew the front and back at the same time and miters the corners it takes a lot of practice which I haven't had time to do, set up takes a lot of time, and I did get that done. I did do a small peice and it came out good corners are nice to. But I can see where one would have to practice. It will fit any machine as it comes with all kinds of adapters for slant,high,low shanks. I hope to have time this spring to work with mine some more. It will even fit on my 15-91 singer. Which is the machine I want to use it on most.
Becky
I have one for my Janome Horizon, but I've not tried it yet. I got the dealer to throw it and the blue to bobbin case into the deal when I bought my machine. Here's a video of its use:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShT0VQ3BIUM
Watching the video made me want to try it, but I don't have a quilt ready for binding yet! Apparently you can use straight or decorative stitches, and there are 2 additional "strip feeders" that you can buy for 7/16 and 5/16 wide binding.
I had the zip bind system years ago and it was a total waste of my time and money!!!
Sadiemae
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