Originally Posted by milikaa1
I watched the same as you did, I followed her exact instructions, I have a problem with the corners, I will work on that though, but she said when you sew the binding on from the front to follow the same stitching from the back side, if that makes sence, I did that and my stitching landed on the binding on the back side, I would send a pic but the quilt is dark so would be hard to see....
I used 2 1/2" binding and am new to this, but by doing it the way Leah Day explains does not leave the binding "full"...
2.5" binding is fairly standard. How full the binding is with this width depends largely on your batting (actually, on the thickness of your quilt sandwich). If you used 2.5" and the binding was not full, then next time you need to cut the binding strips more narrow. It takes some experimentation to determine how wide to cut binding strips based on your personal preferences for batting.
A different way to make the binding full is to cut the quilt sandwich more than 1/4" beyond the sewing line. This is why I do not first cut my quilt sandwich and then sew on the binding. Instead, I mark the cutting line with a Sharpie permanent marker and use this as my guide to sew on binding. If I think I need more than 1/4" to "fill" the binding, then I can cut beyond the Sharpie line to fill up the binding better.