I have had a few requests on how I do my bindings so I thought the easiest way was to do a blog post with lots of photos to show my process. I hope this helps. I will be posting a few more of these sorts of tutorials up in the coming future of different sections of the quilt making process. So sit back and take a scroll of this binding!
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| Start anywhere along a side leaving a tail of about 6" |
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| sew 1/4" seam stopping 1/4" from the quilt edge with needle down and pivot |
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| Sew out to the corner and end thread |
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| should look like this |
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| then fold your binding up like this and then back over itself to form the mitre |
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| This is how it should look before continuing to sew this side |
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| Continue to sew this side in the same manner and repeat the corner as in previous do this for each side |
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| continue sewing until 10" from meeting your starting point end thread and layout flat on a table and let the ends overlap |
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| with a pin mark your cutting points ensuring you have a 2.5" overlap |
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| trim ends accordingly |
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| should look like this |
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| open out lefthand side of binding like this |
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| bring righthand side binding like this towards you |
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| twist righthand side binding like this |
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| open righthand side binding like this |
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| Place over lefthand side binding pin and mark sewing line |
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| sew diagonal to form join |
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| sewn join |
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| open and press and trim to look like this |
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| fold back and sewn down to edge of quilt |
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| fold over and corner will form a mitre |
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| hold with clips and using a blind slip stitch attach to the back of your quilt. I hope this helps you understand the binding process. Be on the lookout for more little tutorials like this one to help with little processes of the making of your quilts. Until next time have fun quilting and enjoy the whole process! Wendy |
