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Old 05-18-2012, 10:54 AM
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Not hard to tell I've been gone for awhile--I'm having to "fiddle" to get things done right!!
Anyway, I finished the binding on this quilt this morning. Graduation is next weekend.
Someone posted a helpful hint about how to put your binding on a tube and then hang it around your neck and let it feed from the roller into the sewing machine. I tried it and IT WORKS like a charm. I'm sure I will never have a pile of binding on the floor again!
One picture shows it hanging around my neck and the other shows the binding feeding into the sewing machine.
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That's a fabulous quilt and thank you for the picture of how you did your binding. CLEVER!! And seeing it really makes me want to try it now.
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Just wonderful, great job and thank you for sharing, just the the pics. Have a Blessed day Ellen
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The quilt is fantastic! And...Wow! How clever is THAT! I think many of us who didn't see the first post will now be saving toilet paper rolls and putting them to much better recycle use! lol Thanks for posting.
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Great quilt and binding buddy! Isn't it great to not have to wrestle the binding from under your chair and off the floor? I made myself one with a section of pool noodle (with the center hole) instead of the TT roll.
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Beautiful quilt, thank you so much for the binding idea!!!!!!!
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Your quilt is beautiful!!! I like your tip on the binding hanging around your neck. I usually wind the binding
around my hand into a roll and then I take a can of spray basting (or any can) and set it next to my sewing machine and place the binding around it. It holds it so nice and then if I must get up for any reason, I don't have
to worry about the binding going anywhere.
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Love your quilt! Thanks for the pictures. I will use your tip about hanging the binding around my neck. I have the binding on a tube so getting it around my neck should be simple. Thanks!
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I learn something every single day that I look at this board. What a keen idea! Plus the quilt is so pretty. Love the colors and the sashings, cornerstones. Just everything.
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Beautiful quilt. I had heard about the binding on a roll but, seeing a picture makes it clearer how it works. Thanks for showing us.
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