Thread: Biniding Size??? Help this is my first binding ever

Originally Posted by cjsews

I like to leave 1/8 to 1/4 inch extra batting to fill out the binding. If you are doing the jelly roll quilt you can set your binding this much from the edge of the quilt and use 1/4 inch seam. This will cover your shortage and fill your binding at the same time

I cut it down before I saw a tutorial saying to leave about 1/4" batting to give it that "full" look. I will be doing that the next quilt, I have another jelly roll race quilt in waiting for this one to be done. When you leave the 1/4" of batting I am assuming the backing to the edge of the batting, is that right? And then you trim the edge of the top down with scissors?

I trim both batting and backing larger than the top. If you have not seen yours on yet, just line the binding 1/4 in from the edge of your quilt