Sewing the edges of a quilt together before binding?
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I always (now) stitch around. Reduces problems at binding time. If I am hand quilting, I often run out the last few inches of my short thread in the binding area. Then I trim, and add binding.
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I always stitch around the edge of my quilt before I trim the batting and the backing and before I put on the binding. It makes it so I have one less thing to match up when putting on the binding. If I have a pieced border I always stitch around the outside edge before I sandwich the quilt as well to keep it square and keep seams from unsewing.
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I didn't stitch around the edge on a recent baby quilt I finished and really regretted it. It was a pieced quilt and I wound up having to "unsew" part of the binding to go back and make sure the pieced sections didn't pull away from the binding. I did extend
the batt into the binding because I like that look on a baby quilt,
so that may have had something to do with it,because I usually don't have that problem on a pieced quilt. Next time I will sew around the perimeter first for sure!
the batt into the binding because I like that look on a baby quilt,
so that may have had something to do with it,because I usually don't have that problem on a pieced quilt. Next time I will sew around the perimeter first for sure!
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