Thread: Binding advice please

Hopefully today I will finish quilting my latest project, and get ready to bind the quilt. In all the years I have quilted, I finished them off the way someone taught me, by turning the backing over to the front, and sewing. Because I wanted this one to be reversible, and the backing wouldn't work with the patchwork front, I will be using binding. I have heard this is not as easy as it looks..Any advice or suggestions before I begin the process? I have purchased binding to use (double fold)
Thanks
Pat

Originally Posted by Raggiemom

It took me a few tries to get binding but once I figured it out, I don't usually have too much trouble. I say usually because twice this weekend I sewed my binding in the wrong direction! Check on youtube, there are several videos showing you how to do binding. I had some trouble with the double fold binding I purchased when I first started, it was so stiff I had a hard time sewing with it. That's actually why I started making my own. There are probably some tutorials on this site as well. Good luck and let us know how you make out.

I agree with the statement about the quality of purchased binding. You will get a better quality product if you can make your own binding. Unless it is going on a curved edge, and it doesn't sound like it is, you DON'T have to make a bias binding. I cut 2 1/8" or 2 1/4" , depending on how thick my quilt is, and make the double fold binding from that. You have a whole lot more control over the colors and designs you can use, and it is much better quality.

She makes the binding process so much easier. Once i found this method I have not looked back.

Originally Posted by azwendyg

Sharon Schamber has a great video on doing binding, and she is the BEST! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2hWQ5-ZccE

Originally Posted by azwendyg

Sharon Schamber has a great video on doing binding, and she is the BEST! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2hWQ5-ZccE

That is a good one but I also enjoy viewing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buCKs-Fgvb4. I just try to follow the experts. Good Luck

It is so easy and much quicker to bind to the front with a machine. The owner of a LQS who has her own fabric line - patterns, etc etc and is in many of the popular magazines, taught us how. NO you won't get a Blue ribbon with this technique, but it is neat and you can be done. I do admire all the hand work a lot of ladies do and I do hand sew bindings to the back on table runners, etc. Do a SEARCH on this board and you will find pictures/tutes and information. Nancy Zimmerman does a front binding on some pot holders and that is exactly what you do on a quilt. I prefer not to make a wide binding to the front, but you will learn what you like. Have fun with it!

Here is a link (hopefully) that craftybear posted, great step by step pictures and explanation.

http://comfortstitching.typepad.co.u...g-binding.html

If the link doesn't work, you might have to copy and paste it into your browser bar.

Good luck, binding isn't that difficult and gives such a nice finishing touch. This is a straight binding, not around curved edges. For that you would need a bias binding tutorial and there is one on this board under tutorials.