Originally Posted by nyelphaba
Seam allowance for applying binding is 1/4". The size of the finished amount of your binding should be the perimeter of your quilt and I add 12", this allows for mitering the corners and overlapping the ends. The total length of the binding is many strips of (for me ) 2 1/2" fabric sewn together . Does this help you? Maybe I did not understand your questions.
Thank you for your response and I will take any help I can get! lol What I am asking, is how do you decide how wide to make your binding strips? And, how can the seam allowance be 1/4", no matter how wide the strip is? Wouldn't this leave you with a baggy binding, or is it not supposed to fit snuggly against the edge of the quilt? They don't seem to really cover that in any of the videos. I also just majorly flubbed where you join the 2 strips....that was an epic fail.
If there is anyone in the Lexington, KY area who would be willing to teach me this and possibly FMQ, I would happily pay a qualified person :)