BettyGee

Just returned from my local fabric shop, can't believe I needed more fabric. Anyway the clerk was telling me about a way that she binds reversible table throws with a different color on each side. She said it works perfectly every time. She didn't seem anxious to explain how to do it, just said you stitch the two bindings together and it will hit at the edge every time. Does anyone know how to do this? I can't see how it could be done without one color creeping over onto the wrong side.

Farm Quilter

If you want your total binding to be 2.5", cut one binding piece 3/4", the other 2 1/4, and sew your 1/4" seam. Fold in half and iron. Put the small side down on the proper side, sew down and it should fold over so that the seam attaching the different materials is on the edge.

BettyGee

Thank you so much. Guess seeing it in print works for my aged brain. The lady at the quilt shop said pretty much what you wrote, but it just didn't register. Will give it a try on a runner for Thanksgiving with Christmas on the reverse.

patdesign

If you have seen wrights double fold bias seam tape then you already know what French Fold looks like, the difference is that it is cut on the lengthwise straight grain of the fabric. When it gets flipped o the back side of the quilt, the fold in already there and you dont have to turn in the raw edge. I use double fold tape all the time when binding edges, stitch it to the front side on the crease, encase the edge, flip it to the back and either top stitch or hand stitch invisibly as you prefer.

barbb baumgardner

I just love the quilted paradise site. It has so many answers!

Scissor Queen

Double fold binding and French fold binding are not the same.

Double fold is a single layer of fabric with the raw edges folded to the center. Single fold has one raw edge folded to the center. These are almost always bias cut.

French fold is folded in half and neither edge is folded to the center. French fold can be either cross grain or bias grain.

JoanneS

You don't have to leave the edges jagged - I wouldn't. I would use my 6X24 ruler to straighten them before putting the binding on. Life's too short to spend THAT much time on the edge of a quilt - besides, by the time I get to the binding, I'm already thinking about the NEXT quilt ~ ~ ~

The Bag Lady

I have been doing the French Binding but did not know what it was called. That is how I was taught. Okay ---what is the binding called when you just bind the four sides with out mitering the corners. I have never done this but was just wondering. Then how do you finish off the four corners.I have heard of people doing this method because they were afraid to try mitering. Just wondering.

stitches_ia

I have ALWAYS used a bias single fold binding on any quilt that has a scalloped or jagged border. You will be very unhappy if you try to bind your quilt with a straight grain double fold binding. It just doesn't work nicely on inner points..maybe I can find a site that says how it can be done. Inner points are rather tricky to bind.

Farm Quilter

Here is a tutorial for two-color binding, if anyone is interested:

http://scrapsbystephanie.blogspot.co...-tutorial.html