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The pictures are great. I am making my first quilt. Can you address how stitch the binding around the corners? Thanks:)
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Thanks for the info!! :)
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For once I am feeling successful! This is the way I always do hems on things or bindings. I taught a young woman at class how to do it and she immediately fell in love with not being able to see the stitches. :D
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Originally Posted by lisaly
The pictures are great. I am making my first quilt. Can you address how stitch the binding around the corners? Thanks:)
Part One: Sew up to this point [ATTACH=CONFIG]72677[/ATTACH] Fold this up to corner and start sewing along the next side for about 1\u0094. [ATTACH=CONFIG]72678[/ATTACH] Push the needle back between the layers to the corner again [ATTACH=CONFIG]72679[/ATTACH] |
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Originally Posted by fromthenestdesigns
Originally Posted by lisaly
The pictures are great. I am making my first quilt. Can you address how stitch the binding around the corners? Thanks:)
Part Two: After it is secured, I take my scissors and tuck it in under the corner. [ATTACH=CONFIG]72848[/ATTACH] do an extra tacking stitch in corner and half way down the part you tucked. [ATTACH=CONFIG]72849[/ATTACH] |
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Originally Posted by fromthenestdesigns
Originally Posted by fromthenestdesigns
Originally Posted by lisaly
The pictures are great. I am making my first quilt. Can you address how stitch the binding around the corners? Thanks:)
Part Three: Continue using the Ladder Stitch until the next corner and repeat. [ATTACH=CONFIG]72854[/ATTACH] |
Printed out..........wish I had something to bind right this minute
tfs Judy |
Well done Tute! I'm so visual that pictures are what make it all do-able for me. Thank you.
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Originally Posted by fromthenestdesigns
Originally Posted by fromthenestdesigns
Originally Posted by lisaly
The pictures are great. I am making my first quilt. Can you address how stitch the binding around the corners? Thanks:)
Part Two: THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!!! |
Yay - I am a knitter, so I have a transferable skill - thank you!
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Very clear instructions. Thanks
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THANKS! Perfect timeing. I'm putting binding on a quilt for grandaughter's 18th birthday-TOMORROW. Now I think I will have it ready in time.
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thanks for the tutorial
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you can touch a iron really light to the binding to so it stays back...I use w/n so the batting can be iron...But if using poly, just give the binding a light touch or shot of steam, this way I don't need to fuss with pins, etc.
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wow, just saw the other pictures for the tutorial on here, thanks again
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Originally Posted by Ritzquilts
you can touch a iron really light to the binding to so it stays back...I use w/n so the batting can be iron...But if using poly, just give the binding a light touch or shot of steam, this way I don't need to fuss with pins, etc.
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I iron it right as I get done sewing it on and it stays pretty good, corners and all
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Thanks for these instructions. I tried this stitch and I really like it! My bindings never look very good. The ladder stitch gave me the best results I've had yet.
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Originally Posted by Teacup
Thanks for these instructions. I tried this stitch and I really like it! My bindings never look very good. The ladder stitch gave me the best results I've had yet.
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I glue baste my binding down and I just used this method after I remembered it, about halfway into my second table runner and oh boy did it make it go faster! Love it! Thank you!
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This is also the stitch I use for hand applique! Just use tiny little stitches. Looks like a running stitch on the back of the background!
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Originally Posted by applique
This is also the stitch I use for hand applique! Just use tiny little stitches. Looks like a running stitch on the back of the background!
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Just took a quilt to my quilter yesterday - now I will use your method of binding when I get it back. Had not seen this tutorial before, so thank you very much!!!!
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I don't know. I tried this stitch instead of my regular blind stitch on a quilt binding and it came loose. I know I did it right but it sure didn't hold for me. I went back to my blind stitch
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Thanks
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Originally Posted by lfw045
I don't know. I tried this stitch instead of my regular blind stitch on a quilt binding and it came loose. I know I did it right but it sure didn't hold for me. I went back to my blind stitch
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I've been using this for applique for a long time - taught this method at my guild and most people caught on to the method quickly. Even demo'd it using red thread to applique pastel pink to white and no one could see the red thread (on the right side at least!) Do use it for binding, but do like to pin and don't have the "ladders" as long as in the photos.
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Super!!! - best pics I've seen of this technique
tfs Judy |
I don't remember what this stitch was called in the 1950's when I was in high school, but it is how we were taught to hem a garment.
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Originally Posted by JanieW
Originally Posted by bstanbro
I'm not exactly getting this. So is the stitching between the quilt and the binding so that it doesn't come to the top of the binding? It's the "invisible" part that's throwing me off. It seems that this would end up looking like hand quilting stitches. Please enlighten me.
When you go to the left to make your stitch in the binding, it goes between the two layers of fabric in the binding. Then the next stitch is the same as the first, etc. After you have made two or three ladders and you pull your thread, the stitches won't show because they are between layers of fabric. I used blue thread to help you see it better. Once the ladders are pulled you can see why it's invisible as the blue thread doesn't show up in the green binding. Hope this helps! |
Thats what I always have done but didn't know it was called a ladder stitch. Looks so good when finished.
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Wow I like it
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This is wonderful! I'm doing my first quilt binding and this stitch is working like a charm!
(Which is logical. Because half the quilt is charm squares. :D ) It's faster than the blind stitch I use for appliqué, and just as invisible! |
Thank you. I was taught that stitch when I was five by my aunt and never knew the name. Now everyone asks what stitch it is and I can tell them (only 35 years later. lol).
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I tried this method last night on a wall hanging. I'm totally converted! I'll never go back to the other methods I've used. This was SO much better and absolutely invisible. thanks for the great tutorial!! :)
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Originally Posted by Val Armstrong
I tried this method last night on a wall hanging. I'm totally converted! I'll never go back to the other methods I've used. This was SO much better and absolutely invisible. thanks for the great tutorial!! :)
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Great tutorial ~ boy do I need all the help I can get when it comes to binding :lol:
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This is the way I do bindings, and thought it was the way everyone did it to hide stitches, but found out different!
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Originally Posted by cwpainter
Great stitch idea. I was wondering if anyone has used this stitch to sew quilt squares together if you are doing a "quilt as you go method"?
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This is how I do my binding too ... Thanks for the tip on using a lighter thread. I am doing black on black with black thread and it is really hard to see. so, I think i'll try a little lighter thread.
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