Just wondering.
03-22-2011, 04:01 PM
#161
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Location: Elwood IL
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I guess I'm unusual because I do like to do the binding, making it, mitering corners, sewing it down and hand stitching the back. I know I will have my quilt all done when I finish and I love that feeling. what I dislike are borders and sandwiching the quilt. I find it so hard to manipulate all that fabric.
03-22-2011, 05:26 PM
#162
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I don't mind it and as soon as it is quilted I do the binding. I do the hand sewing while watching TV with my DH. A small lap quilt can be done in a quilt of hours, the larger the more time.
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03-22-2011, 06:38 PM
#163
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Location: Ten Mile, Tennessee
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I enjoy sewing the binding on my quilts. I wrap the quilt around my lap as I hand sew the binding on the back of the quilt. I think about the person and say a few prayers as I sew. By the time I am finished, I have thoroughly loved and prayed over the quilt. When I give the quilt to family or friends or even keep, the quilt is "stitched with love and bound with prayer," which is what I add to every label.
03-22-2011, 06:38 PM
#164
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Location: Ten Mile, Tennessee
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I enjoy sewing the binding on my quilts. I wrap the quilt around my lap as I hand sew the binding on the back of the quilt. I think about the person and say a few prayers as I sew. By the time I am finished, I have thoroughly loved and prayed over the quilt. When I give the quilt to family or friends or even keep, the quilt is "stitched with love and bound with prayer," which is what I add to every label.
03-22-2011, 08:53 PM
#167
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Originally Posted by mustangquilts
Originally Posted by cmworrall
Can I ask how long it takes most of you to hand sew on a binding? I haven't done a lot of quilts - maybe 15 or so - but it seems to take me FOREVER to do the binding. Does it just take practice to get better/faster?
03-23-2011, 03:55 AM
#169
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Location: Stone Mountain, Ga
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Originally Posted by Homemother
Originally Posted by Joyce Ann
I don't like binding. I just turn over the backing and stitch it down and it gives it a nice border
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