Originally Posted by Prism99
I mark the edge of the quilt with a Sharpie permanent marker (instead of cutting). Then I line up the raw edge of the binding with the marker line, sew on the binding, and only after that cut everything down. At that time I can make adjustments to the binding fill by cutting a little extra or shaving off a bit if I want to.
I just recently read about this technique for the first time, and I'm trying to figure out what the benefit is of this method vs. trimming all 3 layers and THEN adding the binding. No one in my little quilting world has ever done it, or even heard about it, this way.
So instead of trimming all 3 layers, you're "squaring" the quilt by drawing the Sharpie lines?
Do you ever block your quilts? After the binding?
Interesting. Very interesting.
Thanks for the info.