Yep, that would be true for me, too!! :thumbup:

Gee now I know I put on French Fold Bindings. I just have always called it "binding". ah we live and learn on this board.

gee I've been doing a French Fold binding all along , never new it was called anything different than 'binding', LOL

warm quilt hugs, sue in CA

don't press the binding in half. just fold it wrong sides together and pin it to the front edge. flip over, and so on.

if you press, then when you flip over, that press crease is in the wrong place and wants to creep upward a little bit. if you smoosh it down, then you're squashing the under layer inside to keep that in place. it's much better to just not press in the first place.

Hey I learned something new, I just called it binding.

After reading craftybear's google, I am still confused about French fold. Is it when the binding is folded in half stitched on one side to the quilt, then folded over and (hand stitched) to the back of the quilt? It's never been called that before. Hmmm. Learn something every day.[/quote]
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You have just described what I was taught that 'french fold' is. I do this on every binding, except I use bias cut fabric. I can't even imagine torturing myself trying to use straight grain fabric. Cutting your binding on the bias allows it to 'relax' to the back side for hand stitching.

I will share a great hint I found by accident though. When I did my binding, I always had problems with the thread catching on the pins that I used to hold the binding to the back side. In desperation I went on a 'hunt' through my sewing room looking for some kind of 'plan B'. I spotted my binder clips (They were too small for what I bought them for.) Well I tried it and it WORKS! Just put the little metal bars down across the quilt, and no catching threads. I use ten of them, and remove them as I go. I am so proud of this solution, that I tell everyone. I told the lady who did my LAQ and now she no longer has to pay someone to bind her quilts!

i think that is just another name for cutting the material twice the width that you need , on the straight of the grain, and folding it in half lengthwise before attaching it.

I sew my binding strip to the back of the quilt first and fold it over the front when I'm done and use the binding clips to hold in place and stitch to the front by machine. I can't do all that handwork anymore.

Oui oui, moi aussi! hahahaha (yes, yes, me too. teehehe)

i second that !!!!

Just returned from my local fabric shop, can't believe I needed more fabric. Anyway the clerk was telling me about a way that she binds reversible table throws with a different color on each side. She said it works perfectly every time. She didn't seem anxious to explain how to do it, just said you stitch the two bindings together and it will hit at the edge every time. Does anyone know how to do this? I can't see how it could be done without one color creeping over onto the wrong side.

If you want your total binding to be 2.5", cut one binding piece 3/4", the other 2 1/4, and sew your 1/4" seam. Fold in half and iron. Put the small side down on the proper side, sew down and it should fold over so that the seam attaching the different materials is on the edge.

Thank you so much. Guess seeing it in print works for my aged brain. The lady at the quilt shop said pretty much what you wrote, but it just didn't register. Will give it a try on a runner for Thanksgiving with Christmas on the reverse.

If you have seen wrights double fold bias seam tape then you already know what French Fold looks like, the difference is that it is cut on the lengthwise straight grain of the fabric. When it gets flipped o the back side of the quilt, the fold in already there and you dont have to turn in the raw edge. I use double fold tape all the time when binding edges, stitch it to the front side on the crease, encase the edge, flip it to the back and either top stitch or hand stitch invisibly as you prefer.

I just love the quilted paradise site. It has so many answers!

Double fold binding and French fold binding are not the same.

Double fold is a single layer of fabric with the raw edges folded to the center. Single fold has one raw edge folded to the center. These are almost always bias cut.

French fold is folded in half and neither edge is folded to the center. French fold can be either cross grain or bias grain.

You don't have to leave the edges jagged - I wouldn't. I would use my 6X24 ruler to straighten them before putting the binding on. Life's too short to spend THAT much time on the edge of a quilt - besides, by the time I get to the binding, I'm already thinking about the NEXT quilt ~ ~ ~

I have been doing the French Binding but did not know what it was called. That is how I was taught. Okay ---what is the binding called when you just bind the four sides with out mitering the corners. I have never done this but was just wondering. Then how do you finish off the four corners.I have heard of people doing this method because they were afraid to try mitering. Just wondering.

I have ALWAYS used a bias single fold binding on any quilt that has a scalloped or jagged border. You will be very unhappy if you try to bind your quilt with a straight grain double fold binding. It just doesn't work nicely on inner points..maybe I can find a site that says how it can be done. Inner points are rather tricky to bind.

Here is a tutorial for two-color binding, if anyone is interested:

http://scrapsbystephanie.blogspot.co...-tutorial.html

Thank so very much for the tutorial. This makes it so much easier to understand, can't wait to use it.

Hi Scissor Queen
Thanks for the info.

I have been doing it most of the time didn't know what it was called I like it because you can stich in the ditch on the back and it will look fine

I read somewhere that using a double thick binding (french fold) gave a stronger better binding than a single layer of fabric so that is what I have been doing. Didn't know it was called french binding, but I like it better and it's easy to do.

This may have already been answered, but I think ... French seaming is creating a seam where there is no raw edge.
When I make pillowcases/presentation cases, I use the French seaming ...
to create it, you put the WRONG sides of the pieces together and stitch less than the 1/4" along the seam you are working on.
Turn the work so that the right sides are together and then fold the exposed raw edges into the two pieces that are being joined and then stitch that at quarter inch ... because most of the time, these seams are exposed on the ends, you must backtack a few stitches at the start and finish of the stitching.
That is why I think the binding where the raw edge is encased in one easy time of stitching is called the "French fold" <wave>

I don't think so we can done this without a single color creeping over onto the wrong side...

Always remember, Google is your friend. Enter the key words of your question and hit enter.........................

https://frommarti.com/bind.shtml

I had heard the term many years ago and I thought it was double folded binding. Don't know why it is called French.

Original question was 2010........

I am confused as to the jagged edges I would think you'd need a bias binding for something that is not straight edged , obviously everyone else has told you what the french fold is so now you all know that's what you have been doing all along.

Wow, that makes me feel older than old as I knew immediately what it was. It was called that when I first started quilting years ago!!LOL