On FB a while ago someone was asking about how we all sew binding onto a quilt and it made me think of how I have different methods, of course if it’s a show quilt or magazine quilt I sew the binding to the front and hand sew onto the back, but if it’s for anything else I use 1/4″ “binding” tape from the warm company!
I’ll show a few different ways to use it!
a pack has 2 rolls and they are SEW handy! it’s double sided, so after sewing binding onto the front, I lay the quilt with the backside UP and press the tape down with a hot iron, at first I go from right and to the middle somewhere, but after that when I have some binding done I do the whole side and have it overlap the corner a bit like this, then peel back the paper and fold over the binding and press again with the hot iron and it stays in place. Now this doesn’t mean it’s done, I then stitch it down.
This is where I sew it down different ways, one way is to then flip it over and sew topstitching kind of in the ditch close to the binding, if the binding was 2 1/2″ and it was sewn to the front with 1/4″ seam allowance then when it’s pressed onto the back it reaches over the stitch line by quite a bit so it’s “safe” to stitch from the front.
see here it’s pretty perfect!
If you don’t “trust” this method, then sew the binding onto the back and just stay close to the edge
but then the front stitch line may get a little crooked especially near the corners- well you just have to be careful!
Or you can stitch from the front again with a decorative stitch then it’ll surely work and not be crooked or skip corners, but my quilts tend to get wavy then, so I don’t like this method much.
Here it shows the back
The pink quilt above is made from a charm pack, I showed in an earlier post how I dug out my precuts and found books and patterns and paired them up
The book for this is called 3 times the charm
This is the quilt in the book, it’s a tiny quilt, maybe 27″
I wasn’t “loving” the top but it’s okay..
I quilted it with a different method on the juki using quiltcad and I was able to quilt 6 blocks at a time, then the last 3, I didn’t have a plan for the borders, then when I took it off the frame, some sides were a bit wavy (because they were unquilted) so I decided to just whack at them and cut them down and added the same pink binding as the backing as it sort of matched
This will be another doll play quilt for my daughter 🙂
Bea, I looked up Warm Co. binding tape and couldn’t find it — is that actually the 1/4 inch Steam-A-Seam (or Steam-A-Seam 2)? If so, woo hoo because I already have that! And if so, great idea for securing the binding on the back for “from the front SITD”. I machine bind most of the time and will sometimes use that method and would glue the binding down. However, I sometimes find that process to be a little fiddly or messy. Definitely trying this on my next round of binding!