Rounded corners...
 

If I wanted my quilt to have rounded corners, rather than square corners, do I absolutely need bias binding?

How do you round them off? Just use a compass?

Thanks!

Watson (Just full of questions, lately!)

Straight grain binding won't easily follow the curve and won't lay flat. Bias binding is much easier to use on curves. I use bias binding on all of my quilts.

Cari

A dinner plate, or desert plate will do...for just that gentle curve and only the four corners, I think you will get away with straight binding.....what say all?
questions are good - means you're expanding your base and not staying stagnant.

I definitely would go with a bias binding, just for the ease of following the curve. And for rounding off the corner use a dinner plate, you don't need any fancy tool.

Tartan has an excellent suggestion!!!

It's not that hard to make bias binding. I think it's actually kind of fun. I use the video tutorial on the McCall's quilting website. I think for your curved corners to lay nicely you will need bias binding. It works well on the straight edges, also. I've made it for binding a regular quilt that I wanted to have the "barber shop" effect stripes and also for scallop edge quilts.

I think you will have a much nicer looking binding and much less frustration if you do a bias binding.

The only way I've seen rounded corners done was with a plate or bowl, trace along the edge. I'd do it on a piece of paper first; cut away the paper and lay it on the top to make sure you are getting the look you want.

Not sure why the hesitancy to make bias binding? i use it for most quilts.

The reason I'm trying to stay away from the bias binding is because I was hoping to make the binding out of scraps from the quilt fabrics.

Watson