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    Old 08-25-2010, 12:06 PM
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    I'd love to read your tute!!!
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    Old 08-25-2010, 12:08 PM
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    Hi, my name is DiannaLynn. I'm extremely new at quilting, but I've been learining from the two older ladies that live next to me. They are both very picky and I'm glad. They just told me to make a double fold binding strip, all strips joined together with a 45degree seam. Then for mitered corners, stop a distance equal to my seam allowance, from the corner, backstitch a couple of stitches, take quilt out of machine, cut threads, fold my mitered corner so my binding edge is even to the raw edge of my next side, start stitching right where I left off. As for the joining of the end to the beginning, I overlap, mark where they overlap at an opposite 45 degree angle, cut with seam allowance, sew the two ends together, sew to quilt. Then I sew the binding to the back of the quilt by hand. I only know the way I was taught, but I like it. As a matter of fact, after piecing my blocks together, binding is my favorite part. Maybe because I know that pretty soon I can start on another one!!!! Thank you guys for being here, I'm always using this site for help!!
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    Old 08-25-2010, 12:28 PM
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    just an iron
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    Old 08-25-2010, 12:35 PM
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    My favorite tool for binding is a binder clip. You need the sheet metal ones that sort of look like a weird little purse, with handles you pinch (see picture). I use the smallest ones. I have friends in our quilt guild that use the next size larger, but which ever works for you. I get mine from dollar stores or office supply stores. I tried to use the 'hair clippies' that some one recommended, but my thread kept catching on them. I cut my binding 2.5", fold in half lengthwise and Press, not iron. I sew them around the edge with the binding cut edges to the edge of the quilt. Fold over, secure with binder clips, and hand stitch. To get help with binding, Google 'bind a quilt'. You can even find how to make the edges fit together neatly, and mitering the corners. I think I learned how by watching Nancy Zieman. Do not forget to run your hand stitching thread through beeswax to make it glide. (To the quilt police...I don't care if you no longer use beeswax, I do!)
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    Old 08-25-2010, 12:38 PM
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    Originally Posted by brushandthimble
    I don't use any special tool, just a couple of pins, small ruler and marking pencil. I get perfect corners every time and you can not tell where I started and ended, it looks just like any joining of strips. I will be giving a class in a few week, I will make a tutorial while preparing my samples for the class if anyone is interested.

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    Would definitely love to see how you do this!
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    Old 08-25-2010, 12:45 PM
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    would ,ove to see a tute on binding! Always find mitered corners frustrating. :roll:
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    Old 08-25-2010, 12:51 PM
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    Originally Posted by madamekelly
    My favorite tool for binding is a binder clip. You need the sheet metal ones that sort of look like a weird little purse, with handles you pinch (see picture). I use the smallest ones. I have friends in our quilt guild that use the next size larger, but which ever works for you. I get mine from dollar stores or office supply stores. I tried to use the 'hair clippies' that some one recommended, but my thread kept catching on them. I cut my binding 2.5", fold in half lengthwise and Press, not iron. I sew them around the edge with the binding cut edges to the edge of the quilt. Fold over, secure with binder clips, and hand stitch. To get help with binding, Google 'bind a quilt'. You can even find how to make the edges fit together neatly, and mitering the corners. I think I learned how by watching Nancy Zieman. Do not forget to run your hand stitching thread through beeswax to make it glide. (To the quilt police...I don't care if you no longer use beeswax, I do!)
    Haha, love it! I use beeswax, too! I do have some Thread Heaven to keep in my to-go kit since it's so small and fits better but I keep the beeswax in my quilting bag. And I've only been quilting for a year now so if it's taboo already, I'm in trouble. :lol:
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    Old 08-25-2010, 12:59 PM
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    My husband made me a binding winder and it sits on my sewing machine and the binding comes off the roller as I sew and that is the best thing, no twisting, I wind my binding on it and away I go.
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    Old 08-25-2010, 01:24 PM
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    me too
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    Old 08-25-2010, 02:04 PM
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    I will be starting the turtorial tomorrow, Thrusday. I like my binding and don't mind doing them. Why spend $ on special tools. I do attach using my walking foot, and hand sew to the back. My only 'special' tools are the binding clips.
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