Squaring up before adding the binding strip
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Squaring up before adding the binding strip
I thought I read somewhere that it's ok to sew your binding strip along the edge of your quilt before you square it up. Am I way off base with that? In otherwords, can I just leave my quilt sandwich bigger around the edges (not square it up), sew on the binding and then trim? Is there any advantage to this? Thanks!!
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You could draw a line all around your quilt for a 1/4 inch seam to run the binding along. You could trim along the line and the raw edges of the binding after sewing. I like to use my large squares and rulers to square up my quilted sandwich and trim before putting the binding on myself.
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You must square the top up before you sandwich it. You then sew the binding on, and by doing it this way you make sure to have batting in the binding, then you cut off the batting and backing to the left of the binding. This is not squaring up the quilt as the top has already been squared up.
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