Originally Posted by
Onebyone
I will try this the next binding I do. A lot of the time I will use a decorative stitch to sew the binding have half the stitch on the quilt and half on the binding. I then do another of the same stitch on the binding itself. I don't use overly stuffed binding for this. I started to use only bias binding too. It doesn't wear away as fast as straight gain binding. It's as easy to make it bias as cutting strips using this method.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO7iTP1MSsY
I used to do kind of like this until I found this method:
http://piraterodgers.com/tutorials/cbt/index.htm
With this method you end up with the strips already sewn together so it's one long strip of binding. It's only hard the first time you do it, after that it's a piece of cake. I'm in love with striped bias binding so I buy several 1/2yds at a time and do them up ahead of time. When I need binding I just go to my drawer and find one in the right color.
Cari