Another binding thread
06-05-2010, 03:36 PM
#21
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Originally Posted by Holice
One national teacher uses the fusiable thread in the first stitching. Then fold to the back and fuise the edge of the binding just outside the stitching line that has been done with the fusiable thread. Then sid from the front.
Her quilts are prize winners.
Her quilts are prize winners.
06-05-2010, 08:43 PM
#22
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thanks for this link
Originally Posted by Prism99
I think this is the best machine quilt binding technique I have seen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wprg5...os=1nZBY_XIxcw
If you have a feather stitch on your machine, I think it would look fantastic on both sides.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wprg5...os=1nZBY_XIxcw
If you have a feather stitch on your machine, I think it would look fantastic on both sides.
06-05-2010, 09:18 PM
#23
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I do all of mine with a method that I found called "Magic strip binding". I ran across this in a magazine called Quilters Newsletter. It is the December/ January 2010 issue on page 50. It is by Terry Chilko.
Quick and easy... Twice around the quilt and it's done.
Quick and easy... Twice around the quilt and it's done.
06-06-2010, 03:29 AM
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Originally Posted by seamstome
I just had to do two today. Both lap size. The first was a mess. Luckily it is going to my dad and he wont care! The second went better. I just was super duper careful and luckily my bobbin thread was a dead on color match. Neither are show quality for sure.
I will share my miter corner trick from the class. You pin the binding, then you mark a 45 degree angle on the binding from the corner out about a half inch. I stick a pin along that line. Then you sew to where you hit the line (and the pin). You pivot and sew along the line to the corner. You fold the binding up along the stitch line--making the angle. Lightly press the angle. Fold binding back down. Square and press. When you undo the corner after all the sewing, grab the corner of the binding with your teeth (I swear this is what we did in class!) and grab the sides with your fingers and give a little snap. If you need to clip the excess batting etc at the corner.
I think I will just have to be very careful and practice. I glue or pin ALOT.
I will share my miter corner trick from the class. You pin the binding, then you mark a 45 degree angle on the binding from the corner out about a half inch. I stick a pin along that line. Then you sew to where you hit the line (and the pin). You pivot and sew along the line to the corner. You fold the binding up along the stitch line--making the angle. Lightly press the angle. Fold binding back down. Square and press. When you undo the corner after all the sewing, grab the corner of the binding with your teeth (I swear this is what we did in class!) and grab the sides with your fingers and give a little snap. If you need to clip the excess batting etc at the corner.
I think I will just have to be very careful and practice. I glue or pin ALOT.
06-06-2010, 05:20 AM
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I have a question: I haven't tried it yet because I'm confused, but I want to try stitching to the back and doing decorative machine stitching to tack the binding to the front. BUT - if I've left 1/4" batting around the edges (to keep the binding "full"), do I mark 1/2" down on the back and sew my binding on that line?
06-06-2010, 05:48 AM
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Originally Posted by CompulsiveQuilter
I have a question: I haven't tried it yet because I'm confused, but I want to try stitching to the back and doing decorative machine stitching to tack the binding to the front. BUT - if I've left 1/4" batting around the edges (to keep the binding "full"), do I mark 1/2" down on the back and sew my binding on that line?
06-06-2010, 05:57 AM
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I relate to what you are saying
Originally Posted by sewjoyce
NO, you're not an idiot!! (Well, if you are, then I am too :lol: :lol: :lol: ) because I can't do it by machine either. I sew my binding to the front by machine and then wrap around to the back and hand sew. If I do it any other way, it looks, well, funky :lol: :lol:
06-06-2010, 06:08 AM
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First of all, I think you're cutting your binding too wide. Are you sewing it on with a 1/4" seam? If so then the binding is definitely too wide. Try cutting your binding about 2 1/8" or 2". If that's too small for your first try, try cutting 2 1/4" wide.
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