I appreciate all the encouragement and help my QB friends have provided. We have finished a couple of other quilts, but this is the first one we have finished every step ourselves. The only problem is we don't know how to bind. We watched some videos on Youtube and did the best we could. We just wrapped the backing around and tacked it down with a decorative stitch.

I explained the "Galloping Horse Rule" to my wife and she likes it. :lol: I think this one passes. I didn't take pics of the problems, but I would like to ask a couple of things. There are some places where the quilting goes all the way to the edge of the quilt and under the binding, and some places where it stops short. I want to be more careful in the future and try to either make it consistent - either out to the edge of the sandwich our stop a couple of inches before the edge. Does this matter?

On the binding, we decided to fold over the backing since we had so much of it. We understand how to turn corners on the separate binding, but we had some trouble with making the corners look right using the backing as binding. Is there a tutorial somewhere about using the backing as binding?

Thanks again everyone. Hope you enjoy our finished quilt.

Darren

I love the meandering stitch, especially since you did it in blue. Looks like a lovely quilt to me.

Looks good to me. I love the quilt and the quilting.

Awesome quilt! Congrats!! :)

When you fold the backing to the front to bind, fold the point of the corner in toward the center of the quilt, and then fold the sides into each other, forming a miter...

Hmmmmmm...does that make sense? :lol:

You two are so dang cute! I like your quilt. Keep up the good work ;-)

Nice job!! My grandmother did the binding on all of her quilts that way and that's all I knew of at first.

Lovely quilt...very nice work.

Thanks everyone!

Charlee - that's sort of what we did. It's not beautiful, but the Galloping Horse won't notice, right? This quilt is for a baby (now 8 months) in our SS class. We hope they use it to death, so we figure a couple of rough spots won't be noticed after it's been ### on, shut in the car door, drug through the parking lot, and used as tent in the backyard.

Darren

Very nice quilt. You both did an awesome job.

It looks great! You two did a wonderful job. The previous explanation about folding the back to make a miter is spot on. It's kind of like folding the gift wrap paper on a box. Looking forward to seeing more of your work!

Great Job on the quilting :thumbup: You two make a great pair :mrgreen: Keep on making the beautiful quilts

I like the fabrics you used. They work well together.

As far as where you quilt - I can kind of understand your wanting to be consistent as to whether you go under the binding or just up to it. It probably doesn't matter one way or another.

When you wrap the back to the front, what do you do with the thread ends of your quilting?

I love everything about this - the fabric, the pattern, the quilting... should I send you my address ? :)

Very nice. You two did a great job.

Very nice!

great job

Great job! Congratulations on making it TOGETHER! What a team!

Great Job! my husband quilts too and it is lovely too have something to enjoy together. He and I have very different styles so that makes it good interesting! love the quilting!

It is a great quilt! I love the colors. And it does look like it will last, LOL, it will be washed LOTS with an 8 month old!

Wonderful :thumbup:

Great job you guys. I think it's great that you do this together.

Looks great, you did a great job on it.

What a wonderful quilt. Your quilting is great. I love it. Thanks for sharing. :D

you two did a great job, you will get better and better as you go along.

What a wonderful collaboration.. y'all are a great team.. the quilt is beautiful and y'all are a darling couple.

Wonderful quilt - you both did a great job and I think that horse can go by as slow as it wants and will still like it.

I love this quilt!!! :D:D:D
AND I love that you made it for a child to enjoy...completely enjoy :D:D:D

I usually start my meandering at the quilt edge and end it there. This way I can make double sure that the stitching won't start coming undone, as the binding stitches help to secure it.

I really like it! Great job! :thumbup:

Ditter

Great job and excellent job on quilting! Love the color choices!

Well done. Love the quilting

Thanks all for the great comments, encouragement, and helpful hints. We are fascinated that people literally all over the world have seen our quilt and are as happy about it as we are.

Amma - it occured to me that the binding stitch might help hold the quilting down - AFTER the quilting was done and we were tacking down the binding. Hopefully we will continue to learn as we go.

Darren

Looks great!

Great job.

pretty, pretty!

Very nice, keep up the good work.

Sooo pretty!!!

I have found that some people really frown on bringing the backing to the front for binding. Quilts of Valor and Linus Quilts will not accept them. But we can do as we please. I have made dozens that way. I always sewed them down with a decorative stitch.

But when I turn the corners as Charlee suggested, I always make snub nosed corners. I take that back. One time I made a perfect corner like that. I should have taken a picture! I make them anyway. Who cares.

But my sister showed me another way that makes really square corners every time. When you have folded the back over, turned it under and stitched to a corner, stop about a seam's width from the corner, keeping the needle down. The back/binding fabric is folded to the end. Turn the bottom corner up on the diagonal so the fold is even with the edge of the quilt. Now turn the next side of the back/binding up and turn the edge under to sew down the next side.

This works best if the back is trimmed to the exact width needed, and you may want to trim a little excess out of that corner. It gets kind of bunchy. Make one, and you will be able to tell where to trim.

Good luck on your back binding.

Your quilt is so pretty.

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I believe Missouri star quilt has a good tut on binding that is done with the backing folded over the front. I think is is a baby quilt. Also fat quarter shops has a tut, and maybe the gourmet quilter. I would send you the links but I am so short on computer skills I hide my face in shame . O like this method when I can' decide on a binding that the color suits me.
I am the queen of the galloping horse..............................

You are doing a good job.

The problem with bring the backing forward as binding IF YOU QUILT HEAVILY is that there tends to be 'extra' binding relative to the quilt. You didn't on this, so no problem. As far as I can see, quilting under the binding is only a problem if you are quilting heavily enough that the edges get too stiff, OR if you have an elaborate quilting design which gets cut off in the process. Older bats required heavy quilting. Modern ones don't. If you are not entering major quilt shows, the whole issue is null.