BIG STITCH HAND BINDING TUTORIAL

okay let's talk big stitch hand finding there's a few supplies that you need to get started the first is needles my favorite needles are milliner's needles the ones I like to use for hand quilting and hand binding I like them because the eye of the needle is smaller so you're not getting that bulky spot where your thread and your needles are together when you're trying to pull all that through the layers another good option are embroidery needles they have a slightly bigger eyes a little bit easier to thread however because the eye is a little bit bigger you are having a little bit more bulk to your needle and thread but they're both good options um if you're not quite sure what you think you'd like it's always a good idea to get something like this which is a variety pack that way you can try a whole bunch of different needles and see which one works for you you're also gonna use some thread a tweet and 12 white threads are the most popular for big stitch hand binding my favorite is aurifil it comes in twelve weight it comes in tons of colors and it's nice and strong it doesn't shred on me and the spools last forever so this is my favorite you can also use pearl cotton Pro cotton also comes in a variety of colors it comes in eight weight and twelve weight eight weight is a little bit thicker so this is 12 weight here this is eight weight and those are also a nice option for hand binding there's a variety of different manufacturers and different types and go ahead and try which ones you want and see what you like something else that some people like to use is cotton crochet thread this can also be used for hand quilting and hand binding so you've got your needle okay your thread and then the last things that we need are some scissors I have this little pair that I really like because they have a cover that I could take them with me and I don't have to worry about hurting myself if I'm digging into my bag and assembled them both I resisted for a long time symbols I didn't quite know how to use them and I would get frustrated there's a lot of different types market and those are one of the things again that's personal preference definitely try a couple symbols see what you like they have some like this I have a metal spot in the middle what you're supposed to use to push the needle through I actually use my middle finger my middle finger on my right hand which is where I hold the needle and the middle finger and I push the needle through with the side of my finger so because of that my favorite are these all other thimbles I can put it on my finger and then I can use it to push that needle through using the side of my finger if you don't have any needles I'm sorry if you don't have any pimples and you want to get started right away I recommend just grabbing a couple band-aids wrap those around your finger it's just gonna keep your finger from getting too sore because that needles pushing into it okay so we're gonna go ahead and get started we're gonna want to cut our thread to the size that we need a lot of people will say that they cut their thread about 18 inches um for hand quilting I cut about twice that so one thing to note is that when you're pulling all through the layers you never want your threat to be longer than your arm length that means that you would have to come back and pull a second time which will really slow you down so I would recommend cutting a length that feels comfortable for you if you wanted to start with something a little smaller earlier when you're skating started it slowly wieldy you don't feel like you're going to maybe get it as tangled so that's something that you can try and then um maybe you want to try a little bit longer sometimes that's fine too I'm gonna go ahead and put a knot at the end of my thread I just do a normal knot kind of looks like a pretzel and Paul I like to double knot my thread and now we're ready to hand bind so I'm gonna go ahead and move the camera down so you can see what I'm doing usually when I'm hand binding I like to start maybe in the middle of a row of my quilt but because I want to show you how to turn the corner we're gonna start near the edge to prep your quilt for hand binding you want to sew your binding to the front of your quilt top with your machine you want to press that flat and open and you're gonna want to fold it back I like to use binder clips these guys to hold all of my layers in place you can get some specialty sewing clips that do the same thing I just find that these binder clips work really well for my purposes so that's what I end up using this is binding that was cut at two and a half inches you can use binding that's cut at two and a half inches or two and a quarter inches I tend to prefer two and a half inches one hand binding it gives me a little bit more room in the back to work with while having the same look on the front it's tuna quarter with so again that's a little bit personal preference if you are just starting out I might recommend you try to half inches and if down the road you feel like you don't like having as much binding coming on the back you can definitely cut your strips at two and a quarter inches to get started we're gonna want to take our needle you've already threaded it got a knot on the end and we're gonna want to put it through the backi I like to start it right after where I stitched the binding to the backing so right under that stitching line I'm gonna stick my needle in and I'm going to travel through the layers so my needle is not showing up on the front of my quilt and it's not showing up on the back of my clothes my needle is through all of those layers and I'm gonna pull my needle through so now I have about an inch and a half of space where I have secured that needle I don't bother pulling my knot through all the layers because my binding is going to cover that up so that makes it a little bit easier if you've been a little bit nervous about pulling that knot through all the layers you don't have to for big stitch hampering wherever my thread came out is where I'm gonna want to pull it through to the front of my binding so I'm gonna select a spot about eighth of an inch from the edge now my binding is ready to be stitched down and I've got my thread in place you can't see anything from the front that's how we like it and we're ready to go I'm gonna take my needle I hold my needle with my thumb and pointer finger and then this middle finger I was talking about it pushes through all the layers you'll see it rests right on that symbol the side of the thimble that's how my needle gets held that's what works for me I always preach personal preference try it different ways and see what works for you we're gonna put our needle down whatever the length we want our stitch to be I'm gonna use my left hand as a way to help pull and guide that fabric I'm gonna go down and I'm gonna come back up what I want to do is I want to catch those two layers of my binding and my backing and it's okay if I catch some of my bedding that doesn't matter but we don't want the needle to come through to the front so you can't see my needle here just good but it's nice and secure here as pulling all those other layers go ahead and pull once you feel comfortable doing one stitch it can be fun to put two or three stitches on your needle it helps speed things along so I'm gonna put three one two go through all those layers three using that left hand to help guide that fabric you'll notice my left does a lot of this motion it's pulling the fabric down and up I'm using it as a way to guide and get that stitch length that I want I'm gonna check the front I can't see any of my needle that means it's not going through the front which is good I'm gonna go ahead and pull periodically you don't have to do this after every stitch but it's a good idea to check it out once in a while you want to fold back the edge of your binding and make sure that you're catching that backing in your stitches this usually happens to be an issue wherever you joined two binding strips together you have a little bit of that bulk from having extra layers and it can be a spot where you don't catch your backing so that's a good place to just check you want to make sure that you're catching all those layers backing and both layers it's the binding fabric because that's how you'll make sure that your binding is secure okay so we're gonna go ahead and do a couple more stitches so I'm going down I'm gonna come back up again not coming through to the front but I'm catching that backing in the binding town up using my left hand to guide the fabric and I caught a little knot that's okay I don't use any thread gloss I find that with this orful thread I don't need to it goes through all the layers nice and smooth but you can definitely add some spread gloss or a conditioner if you feel like you are getting some tangles or it's not pulling through all the layers like you would want to the front in the back we're good and we're coming up on that corner there's a couple ways we can turn the corner I'll go ahead and take that binding clip that I had on the edge and I'm gonna move it to the side I still want it to hold my nice lighter corner together but I just need it out of my way a little bit right here from when I attach the binding I'm just gonna go ahead and snip that right away that way it's not in my way a little bit later our goal is to get close to this corner as possible where that fold on the mitered corner is that's as close as we want to get and then we're able to decide what kind of corners we want to put on this particular quilt so I'm gonna keep doing my little bindings to chest down and up thread wants to tangle on me today it wasn't doing that earlier okay so this is about as close as we're gonna get um if I did one more stitch I would be into that fold on the minored corner which if I wanted to not do anything fancy on the corners I just want to get to my corner turn it and go the other way what I would want to do is I would want to put my needle down on that fold catch all those layers and I'd be able to come up on the other side and start binding this way what I want to do instead is I wanted to do some fancy corners so the first thing that I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put my needle down through those layers and I'm gonna show you if you wanted to put a stitch one stitch up here you go down through the layers and up about midway on your binding corner and then I'm going to go down right across from it come back up where I my thread originally is so basically doing like a little loop so you can see that corner starting to take shape to finish it to get back to being able to stitch on the other side I'm gonna go right back down here so you're essentially doing two loops on the front of your quilt or on the back of your quilt I should say on your bed I'm the your binding let me go down through all those layers and I've come back up right here so I'm able to start stitching the other way what I want to do though is I want to do in access I'm gonna show you that one that's the third way that you can do a fun little corner just gently take out our little stitch and I go back to before I got to that corner again I'm gonna go down into the corner of the mitered or the mitered corner right where that fold is I'm holding I'm going down here so I'm tacking all those layers down and getting them nice and secure this time instead of coming up right in the middle if we did for the stitch I'm gonna go near the top still on one side of that fold I'll go down diagonally however big I want my X to be and I'm gonna come back up next to where my thread currently is you can see that X starting to take shape so now I need to finish my X so where this bottom part of my X's I'm gonna go diet well next to it we're just gonna create that diagonal stitch with my thread and I'm going to travel through the layers and come up right about there so now I'm ready to start stitching on that next five rotate my clothes so that you can still see what I'm doing and now I'm gonna go back to doing those regular stitches through all the layers not coming through the front down and up up checking that I am NOT coming through the front of the Michael Tom getting out my binding to the now I want to show you what you're gonna do when you get to the end of your thread okay so we're going to say that I am coming to the end of my thread when I have about six inches of thread left it's time to start thinking about ending this piece of thread and starting anyone you don't want to wait till you don't have enough thread left it can be a little bit tricky if you don't leave yourself enough room so always better to have a little bit more spread left over then not enough we're gonna go through our finding we're gonna travel through that backing layer in between our backing and our front like we did when we first started binding that first time when we added our thread the first time making sure we're not coming through that from top we have traveled through the layers okay so my life stitches here my thread is right here and that's the way we want it about an inch to an inch and a half away and now I'm gonna add a couple knots where my thread is the reason that we travel a little bit before nodding off our thread is because if we try to not our thread too close to that last stitch you're gonna end up with either a knot that is too close to the stitch where you've got some puckering too far away from the stitch where your thread tension now is super loose by bringing that thread just a little bit further away because we've got the ability to open up our binding and be able to get at that thread we're able to have a nice or not and a nicer thread tension okay so I've done two knots I'm gonna go ahead and cut my thread I like to leave a little tail you don't have to again we're not gonna bury our knots because we are just keeping it through all of the layers it's gonna get buried through our binding which is gonna cover it up so we don't have to worry about pulling that knot into our banding layers I am going to get my next thread and ready to go and again we're gonna do a couple knots at the end they don't need to be right next to the end they can be a couple inches away I like to do two knots just how we started with that first one initially we're gonna want to put our needle in travel through the layers a little bit and this time we want to come up right near where that last stitch is we already have a knot here from when we nodded off this thread so we want to make sure that we are not putting art and aren't not right next to it it's gonna add a little bit of a bulky spot if you do and you will feel it when it all I said is done and done so I'm gonna choose to go a little further away about half an inch I put my needle in and I'm gonna travel through those layers between the backing in the front and that batting and I'm gonna come up close to where that last itches it's not perfect and that's okay we don't need it to be perfect well I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna bring that needle up through the binding where I want to start my next stitch just gonna be right about here that's where I want to start a nice little pull now my thread is ready to go I have taken those little ends and I've tucked them into my binding folded my binding over it and I'm ready to stitch again we're going down and up using our left hand or if you are left hand dominant than using your right hand whichever hand is not holding the needle to help manipulate the fabric and those layers yeah last thing I want to cover is what to do when you've found all the way around your quilt and you've gotten back to where you started so enging this thread is a little bit different than ending the other ones because we don't want to leave a gap between our last ditch and our first stitch we want that to be a very seamless transition so this is going to be a little bit different than we've done for the other time so we've ended and started our threads just gonna give myself a little bit of thread we're gonna pretend we made it through all the sides we're coming back to that front beat that first stitch we did and we are going to finish it up okay I'm gonna start about right here and then leave myself to that spot you would be coming with your thread down on the side of the quilt so most likely you're not starting a new thread this close to the end but you might be in shake up not from when I started I'm gonna make sure that the little tail gets tucked in there I'm going to be stitching all the way to where I started you'll notice I'm about an inch away now and this is where I start thinking and planning my stitches I try not to end up with a really little itty bitty stitch or a really big stitch sometimes it's unavoidable and it's really not the end of the world but when I'm about an inch away I start thinking and planning how do I get those stitches a little bit even maybe I make them all slightly smaller Opie season I uh I would get too close so nope I'm just gonna make this one then slightly bigger one less stitch and then maybe that oh they'll get me there yep right about there okay so I just need to go down and then I would have finished what we're gonna do is we're gonna take our needle we're gonna go down through the binding but not through the backing we wanted to just poke right back out so that stitches complete on the on the on our stitching and now we need to do something with our thread what we're gonna do is we're gonna tie a knot we don't want to tie our knot all the way to the edge so close to that stitch we actually want it to be about an eighth of an inch to a quarter of an inch away well that'll be too far hold on apparently if you're talking used to the same time okay put my needle through there so well we want it to be is oh right there you'll notice that it's about about a quarter of an inch away from here so here is where we came back out with our binding and our not is right about here it's about a quarter of an inch away again I like to do two knots choose to do one knot okay what we're gonna do now is we're gonna take our needle we're gonna go through the layers well in between our binding and our backing so we're not poking through that backing yet we just want to go in between the layers then you're gonna want to feel for that backing fabric and you want to go through the backing fabric again you're not coming through the front if you notice you go through the front just simply pull it out gently and try again and what you're gonna want to do is you're gonna actually want to poke back out through your binding so your your needle it's gonna be no no them your binding and that's okay as long as you've gone through the backing traveled a little bit and now you come up through the binding what we're gonna do is we're gonna pull our thread gently and then we're gonna pull that knot through that backing that's why it's important to go through the backing we're gonna be able to bury this one not burying this knot helps because we didn't put a knot right next to the stitch so burying it gets it secured and through the layers of batting we are gonna cut our thread and there you are because the champ binding all of the supplies that I've talked about are available in my Amazon shop and they'll link to it in the comment section below so if you are looking for any of these pieces that I recommend the threads and symbol you can find all of those in my shop and anything that you want to see I've got a photo tutorial about this on my blog I'll link to that below as well as some variations on big stitch hand binding that's on the Blanc as well and that's also in the link below thanks for watching

Channel: Patchwork and Poodles

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Id: K5yDiJFKcWc

Length: 25min 58sec (1558 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 11 2020