Originally Posted by Monie
Forgive me for being stupid but I am a newbie. What do you make your binding out of? The fabric you r using or a color fabric that matches? I thought u had to buy binding.
I usually make my binding from the fabric used for the quilt. In fact, I am so anal (not liking a lot of seams in it) that I buy enough of the yardage (based on 4 times the length of the finished quilt) so I can cut it along the selvege. Usually the binding is the same as the outer border, so I also cut the borders next. The rest of the fabric is used in the body of the quilt and leftovers go in the stash for scrappy quilts. (Guess my scrappy quilts could be freebies then!) OH my binding widths are either 2 1/4 or 2 1/2! When I first began quilting I think I was using 3 in widths. Have to go check on that.