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 …
When I started my new Project list for 2019, I was also looking at old bins to find projects I might have missed and this log cabin top was in a bin and I found an old blog post about the blocks here, I know that it was leftover logs from the log cabin quilt …
Have you ever tried the steam a seam tape by the warm company to attach binding?? Lori (Editor of McCall’s and Love of Quilting magazines) showed this trick on FB and I saw it on the quilt show recently too. I did try this for a quilt from the house hop and it worked ok, …
Is your leftover binding strip bin overflowing?? Mine was!! And because I cut 21 strips of black batik WRONG for the women of the bible quilt, I had to do something! I hadn’t done a scrappy string quilt in a long time and I figured that the black strips would be great for that and …
The 12 Days of Christmas quilt is DONE!! I had it quilted for a while but didn’t do the binding until recently. I long arm quilted it with a Christmas variegated thread (I actually don’t care for this one but it fits with the quilt!!) I quilted holly and berries on the border, curves on …
I finished sewing the binding on the blue strippy quilt! yay! I think I have a recipient for this one- though not sure yet… I quilted a swirl all over it in blue thread and I made a sort of scrappy backing, this blue “star” fabric was long enough but not wide enough, so I …
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I figured I’d show how I finish off binding on my quilts 🙂 I make 2 1/2″ strips and sew about 3/8″ from the edge- it’s the center stitch setting on my sewing machine and the edge of the foot (so about 1/3 of the folded width) I start about 5″ or so from the …
Sunday on the way to church I piled up a few quilts and finished the binding on two- almost 3. Tuesday we’re having a neighborhood crafty day so I’ll finish up the 3rd one then The birdie quilt is done- well no label done yet! the cat quilt is done with label and hanging sleeve! …