Re: Binding Help Advice/How-To
- From: Julia in MN <jaccola-AT-chartermi-DOT-net@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:19:37 -0600
steve wrote:
Anyways, here is the question and help needed. On the quilt that I am about to bind, I have an irregular border of outside and inside angles. For a simplified explanation, about 6 inch hexagons. In otherwords, like a really big oblong grandmothers flower. I have my walking foot and all of that for sewing on the binding to then turn to the back and sew and be done. The outside corners are no problem. It's the inside corners. I can't picture how, nor on practice scraps, get the hang of it so that I can fold and clip and do whatever I need to do to make it work for a smooth binding. Is there a trick to this or a website with pictures to show me how? It really needs to stay irregular for the design and character so I don't want to fill in the edge spaces. Any advice would be welcome.I did a quilt like that once and it is not as hard as it seems it might be. It's the Friendship Ring on the first page of my website, though the photos are before it was completely quilted and bound. This is the advice I got from a very experienced quilter in a binding class; it is also how I did my quilt. Use a narrow (1/4") bias binding; it must be bias to go around all those corners smoothly. When you get to a corner, put your needle down, pivot, and stitch down the next straight bit, being especially careful not to stretch the binding at the outside corners. The angles big enough so that you don't have to be concerned about careful miters. When you sew the binding to the back, the bias has enough stretch to ease around the outside corners and will pretty much fall into place on the inside corners. You do end up with slightly rounded outside corners instead of really sharp corners. Mine was a bed-sized quilt, and it doesn't bother me. If it bothers you, you can miter them the same way you miter 90-degree corners.
Julia in MN
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