have many of you wrapped your binding from the back to the front & what kind of issues have you run into?

I've never done this, I always do a reg. binding.

I did a doll quilt that way by mistake. If the recipient noticed she didn't say anything.

I finished a doll quilt like that for my grand daughter and it turned out perfectly.

Are you saying to bring the underside edge of the quilt fabric over the top side of the quilt and binding to the top? I actually have done it when I was running short on material and I liked the added flavor.
The only issue I remember is turning the corners because I haven't perfected that art yet. I just pinned, looked, liked or didn't like and repeated the process until I liked.
Can't wait to see pictures, please.
On this baby blanket I folded the topside over and binded it to the back. Your idea would be the flopside but I think it would be pretty.

If my backing is wider than my top, wrapping the backing around to the front and hand stitching is my preferred method. If they are the sam size then I will use a separate bindibg strip.

Oh thank you, thank you, for this info and pic's. I have a baby quilt that HAS to be finished today/tonight and I think I will try this method. I'm assuming it's faster than regular binding?

the only time i don't bring the backing fabric to the front as binding is if it wouldn't also look good as a traditional binding.

i make sure to fold it double before bringing it to the front, just as i would traditional binding.

Unless I do traditional binding, I sew the double fold to the back, pull it to the front and use a decorative stitch on my machine to sew it down. By using a decorative stitch, it is not as noticeable if the seam line isn't perfectly straight. MUCH faster!

I am glad you posted this. I am going to try this on mine this weekend.

I also fold the binding double before bringing it to the front, just as I would traditional binding. Especially if the backing is a color or pattern that will compliment the front.

Thumbs up!!!!!! You get a yes from everyone, when does it get better than that?

I used a double folded binding. Stitched it to the back, brought it to the front and machine stitched it with a wavy stitch. It was faster that way and I felt it would hold up better for a baby quilt. You can see a bit of it in the first picture.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-6378-1.htm

my dilemma was the fact that i need to calculate extra to bring the binding forward; but now that i found how to do the back [in 1/3rds] it all will be much easier to do!
wow, lots of experience on the board, GREAT! will save a lot of work. & madquilter i like that idea [just in case some longarmer's help trims the back by accident] thanks everybody!

Love the pink! & i'm not especially a pink person but that is just beautiful!!!!

Thank-you. It is soft, silky, snuggly, smells like a baby,....
It was a very ugly piece of fabric my mother gave me and I felt obligated to use it. The top is a solid piece and the bottom is a solid piece. I followed the pattern on the top side to quilt. It took almost no time and is one of my favorites. Wonders never cease.

I was doing a hild's quilt last month and when I got to the point where I would trim to do the binding - I figured that it was a shame to cut off all of that extra - when there was enough for binding - so I trimmed all around the quilt leave about 1" or so in order to turn to the front and turn under, pinned - sewed..it worked great...and made the project so easy - way faster than having to do a separate binding - I will surely use this method again....

I have brought my backing fabric around to the front to finish the quilt. I don't do it every time but it works OK when I do.

We do that all the time on our charity quilt. Generally the backing compliments the front and it is much faster for us to finish up the quilts.

If you're talking about wrapping your backing fabric around to the front I've never done it because I don't think it looks as nice as adding regular binding and when I do that binding I cut mine 2" wide, fold it in half and iron and sew it on to the front of my quilt and then handstitch it to the back. I don't do bias binding unless I have curves and I miter my corners.

I did my Downy quilt that way. I cut the back about two inches larger than the top and then just folded it twice to make a binding.

Our guild does all of our community quilts this way. We cut the backing about 1 1/4" larger all around after it has been quilted. Fold it in half once and then fold again down to your stitching line and top stitch neatly. Use a decorative stitch if you wish. You can even mitre the corners with this method. This was the method that my now almost 90 year old mother-in-law taught me as it was the only way she knew how to bind quilts, so it has been used for a long time. It seems to wear well and this width of binding makes it hard to tell that you haven't used a separate binding. It is also much faster to complete and no one but a quilter would even notice.

Love the pink quilt. The colors are beautiful and I always bind from the back to the front. That is the way the quilting teacher taught us.

The method used where the backing is brought to the front is called self-binding. Penny Halgren gives an explanation with illustrations at this site. http://how-to-quilt.com/cms/index.ph...=143&Itemid=39

It shows how to do the corners to give a mitered look.

I never have. I know that the stitches on the underside of my quilt would be crooked and unsatisfactory ... so I always secure binding by hand. I once wrapped the quilt backing around the front edge of a quilt so binding and back were one piece of fabric, but even then I sewed it by hand.

It depends on the wear the quilt will have. The binding is the place where it needs to be durable. Sometimes when you pull the binding over instead of a reg binding it will wear out.

You say you havn't perfected the corners on your binding.
Go to www.quilterstv.com and under Quilters Cafe scroll down and you will see the video I did on binding.

[quote=PatriceJ]the only time i don't bring the backing fabric to the front as binding is if it wouldn't also look good as a traditional binding.

i make sure to fold it double before bringing it to the front, just as i would traditional binding.[/quote

I always do it this way, partially because it is fast and partially because I hate hand stitching!!! Whenever I enter one of my quilts to be judged, I know that they will count me down for it. But I don't care. Sometimes I use a decorative stitch & sometimes just a straight stitch. I think it looks fine.

I have on the doll quilt. but I am trying to teach my self to quilt, so I struggled to get the miter corner. but I just watched a how to on binding, and I was not doing it right. God bless. penny

That is how I have binded all my quilts, but I also like the idea of bringing the front to the back... I love that pink baby quilt. I am waiting a few more weeks to find out what my second grandbaby will be, then off to make another quilt for a baby.

I just did one like that. My intention was to machine finish it with a decorative stitch but I have two machines and none of them have a nice consistent dec. stitch. They're all uneven, maybe because of the thickness of the fabric, I don't know. Point is, I'm about to hand bind it on the front. Hope it holds up okay.

I have done this, but I do like a reg binding better.

That is all I have ever done. No problems that I can think of. I use Elmer's School glue to baste. I have heard, though, that this type of binding isn't as strong as a regular binding.

I also use the Elmers glue on my binding. Boy, it is so much easier. Wouldn't consider doing it any other way.

How do you miter the corners with this method?

Oops. I just read the reply above and went to Penny Halgren's site to read about mitering.

wow, I learn something