osewfast

Hey Y'all,
I just finished this quilt top graduation gift today. Now to decide if it needs a border. I think I have enough of the dark pumpkin OR dark teal to piece together into a border. It's all corduroy clothing from my great-niece's life - toddler to now. HOPING to get it done in time for her May graduation.

Question - can I bind this in regular cotton or does the binding need to be an equal weight fabric as the cord?

Y'all have a great weekend!
Donna Mc

ckcowl

What are you putting on the back? If regular cotton I would probably bind in the same cotton. Or a flannel might be nice.

Quiltwoman44

Well i made one with corduroy squares and cotton ones. Christmas colors. but it was a rag quilt, not bound.

LAF2019

I would stick with a cotton binding, simply because the thickness of corduroy would be excessively bulky in the binding.

SueZQ from MN

What a great nostalgic gift. A border would tie all of the colors together and frame the quilt nicely, but I think it looks good without it. To answer your binding question, much of the older corduroy was a narrow wale and quite lightweight so it didn't always stand up well over time as the wale would rub off with wear and the fabric would get quite thin, so I would go with the stronger cotton binding for durability.

cashs_mom

Pretty quilt! I'd do with cotton binding also. Especially if you are hand sewing it to the back. I bound a project with denim. It was very hard to hand sew it.

Teen

Lovely finish!

Lena1952

Many years ago I made a corduroy brick quilt and use a single fold corduroy binding. It has held up well and wasn't difficult. But using cotton would also work just as well.

Jingle

Very pretty.