LJMouse12848

Everything takes time then everything falls into place!

bjdemir

No you actually sew right sides together! You need to turn the opposite bindings in opposite directions. The binding is open. I always pin first to make sure they do lay correctly. I never cut until after sewing and final check to make sure everything is laying like it should. Hope this helps.

indymta

Thank you for this link...it is the most helpful I've seen. I like that he used two different fabrics which it made it so much easier to follow.

sewbizgirl

Right sides go together!

I lay the left side end along the unsewn edge and stick a pin in it to anchor it to the edge where it's not been sewn. Then I take the right side end and lap it over the left side end, and mark with a pin exactly on top of the left side pin. Don't pin it to anything, just put the pin in the binding as a marker.

Open both ends flat, moving pins if you have to but then putting them back in their exact spots again. Lift the right side end up so it is perpendicular to the left end, and lay it with its pin right over the pin in the left end. Use both pins to join the ends, right sides together-- the left side parallel to the edge and the right side perpendicular to the edge. Then sew a diagonal seam from the upper right corner, down to the lower left corner, where the binding ends overlap. Trim to a 1/4" seam allowance and your binding should be the right length. Sew it on.

That, without pictures or a video, was probably about as clear as mud! Hope you can find a video of the process.

Monika

I am intrigued....what do you mean "no miter corners for binding" ????

Jeanette Frantz

I used Jenny Doan's The Ultimate Quilt Binding Tutorial -- a YouTube Video -- by Missouri Star Quilt Company. One thing I do differently -- I always cut my binding strips lengthwise, unless I'm doing something that requires a bias binding. My difference does not apply to your problem.

Stitchnripper

I can do the binding ends if I remember to face them either towards or away from the body of the quilt. I can never remember. So I have to look at a tutorial every time. For me that seems to be my issue. If I have the ends wrong sides together but they are facing the wrong way they are twisted. It took me a long time to figure out what I was doing wrong and still have to look it up.

QuiltnNan

Thanks for all the help. on this site http://piraterodgers.com/tutorials/e...ding/index.htm , picture #6 made my binding turn out perfect the first time, today... so easy!

husker67

Sync....that's the way I always do my bindings. I don't have a tool for doing it.

maviskw

Yes, and that's exactly how I told how to do it. Except I put the triangle into the first end before I start to sew and that triangle is the measuring ruler for where to cut off the last end. Sew simple!