Mitered binding corners
04-23-2017, 12:23 PM
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I have found greater success when I have prepared carefully for the binding. First of all, the corners must be trimmed straight-right angles measured with a square ruler. Then when I sew on the binding I measure as I come into the corner. At 1/4 inch I pivot the machine and stitch off at a 45 degree angle. Take it out of the machine. Fold the binding strip up straight (180 degrees) fold it down onto the quilt. The fold must be even with the edge of the quilt. Start stitching at the edge of the quilt and continue to the next corner. Then, I press the b inding away from the quilt and make sure to press into the corners. Turn the binding and stitch down. I find the corners miter easily because of that understitching at 45 degrees. I do this method whether I stitch the binding on the back and finish to the front by machine or stitch the binding on the front and hand stitch to finish on the back.
I usually make bindings that finish wider than 1/4 inch - so I do my pivot at my finished binding width - which in my case is about 3/8 inches. Yes - 1/8 of an inch does matter.
04-23-2017, 03:37 PM
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I do this like Patrick Lose. Watch this video and it is around 7:25 or so.
I also do the binding one way on front and the other way on the back to avoid the 'pig nose'
http://www.freequiltpatterns.info/vi...trick-lose.htm
I also do the binding one way on front and the other way on the back to avoid the 'pig nose'
http://www.freequiltpatterns.info/vi...trick-lose.htm
04-23-2017, 03:56 PM
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04-23-2017, 09:58 PM
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I find that if I'm careful when I fold the binding up and back down at that 45degree angle it's important to make sure that the edges match up--in other words, that the binding is not skewed when I fold it back down for the miter. Also, I don't sew off the binding onto the extra smidgen of bat that I leave to fill the binding. then I make sure to fold it like Bearsgray explains.
04-24-2017, 06:13 AM
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I, too, found that if I am more careful when sewing the corner on, it miters better when I get to the hand sewing. I used to stop at 1/4 inch, now I make sure to stop according to the seam allowance I am using on that particular binding. Bearisgray is so right.....1/8 inch matters! And I err on the side of a stitch too short, NEVER go past the allowance.
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