How to Finish a T-shirt Quilt - Sandwich to Binding

hi everybody this is Carol from segovia quilts and today I'm going to be showing you how to complete a quilt from putting your sandwich together all the way through the quilting and the binding process now this video is not going to show you how to do the quilt top if you're looking to learn how to do the quilt top go ahead and check out this video that I have and once you get your top all completed make sure to come on back here and I'll show you how to actually put it together and quilt it and then put on your binding so this is the quote we're gonna be making today all right so we've before we get started I wanted to go ahead and show everybody what I did to the shirts before I put my quilt top together and this is one of the shirts well this is actually one of the back of the shirts so I won't be using this particular section of material but I wanted to show you that I do stabilize or I put interfacing on the back of all of my t-shirts in my t-shirt quilts so now this is the difference this is a shirt without interfacing and stabilizer and this this is it with the stabilizer on so now right here this edge is not completely ironed down which is fine this I was using the bottom part for extra material if need be but this is it and it earns on and like I said I didn't go all the way down here because I knew I wasn't gonna need that much so you could peel it off if you really really wanted to a little bit but this is what the back of all of my shirts look like so but again I give instructions on how to do this in this other video so if you you know if you've never worked with this or you don't really know what I'm talking about make sure to check out that video so yeah all of my shirts have been processed I've cut them all I've put my quilt top together my my border is on everything is done and ready in good to go so let's go ahead and move on to the first step of actually putting your quilt together and it's gonna be where I lay out the backing fabric and then I put the batting on top and then I'm gonna lay my cold top on top of that and show you guys how to get started all right so let's go ahead and get started today okay so I went ahead and I laid out my backing fabric now this fabric was provided to me by my client and it's not your standard fabric that's about 44 inches wide from selvage to selvage this is the larger fabric which this one measures it's about 104 so 104 inches from selvage over here to selvage over here and and whatever yardage she got which I believe was two yards now I went ahead and I taped it to the floor you can see my little pieces of tape over there and then I taped the entire length of the selvage on both sides and I taped on this side too now I did that so that I could pull the fabric really nice and tight this way I wouldn't have to worry about there being potential you know creases in the backing while I'm quilting it together so I went ahead and did that and so now the next step is going to be to lay out my batting and this is the batting that I've chosen now this is Mountain mist quilt light batting now this is a low loft batting which is usually what I use this one is 100% polyester which is usually what I use also sometimes I use a poly-cotton blend it's usually just kind of always a low loft though I don't ever use anything heavier unless the clients specifically asked for something heavier and I do that because it keeps the quilt kind of light and it doesn't let it get super hot so this is what I use this is a queen size so now what I'll go ahead and do is I'll go ahead and lay this over top of my backing fabric so I'll go ahead and do that right now okay so my batting is all laid out and what I do is I just kind of lay it loosely in the middle of the backing fabric and then starting in the middle I worked my way to each edge smoothing it out and then I work my way out to each corner smoothing it out I didn't use any basting spray because I do my basting with needles so right now it's just laid on there there's nothing really keeping it together except the friction of the two of the batting and the fabric underneath so now I'm going to go in and lay my quilt top on top of it and pretty much do the same thing start in the middle just kind of spread it out so I'm going to leave the camera on and show you how I do that and because I'm doing this on the floor I'm not wearing shoes because I will be stepping on it so yeah this is kind of little extra tidbit so let me go ahead and get the or the the quilt top and I'll go ahead and start laying that out too all right so this is my top now I know for a fact that the quilt top is much smaller than the backing fabric and the batting which is fine it's good to have extra ring around the edges I'm just kind of doing it loosely right now I'm not really trying to Center it or anything but because my cool top is so much smaller than the backing fabric that gives me room to move it around just to make sure I have enough edges on all sides so that's good so I'm just gonna keep doing this I'm gonna I think I'm going to move it up a little bit and then I'm gonna smooth it out and then I can actually start doing my pinning so I'm gonna go ahead and adjust it up okay so I shifted my quilt top up and a little bit out that way I smooth down the whole top part already but I'm going to go ahead and show you guys how I do the bottom part just in case you've never done it before so I'm gonna start in the middle of my quilt which I've just kind of been using the pink block as my middle so I'll go ahead and show you guys what I do [Music] and then just do a quick one that way side this is really putting some pressure on my hands just to make sure it's got a good contact with the batting because that will help keep it in place all right and I know I got more than enough space between my foot top and the backing fabric so that's good but you definitely want to check so check over here I'm good on that side and then if you see anything you know that looks a little not as flat as you want it just run your hand across the top of it all right and I do this throughout the whole time that I'm pinning my quilt top as I'm pinning I smooth it out and then I pin that block and then I move and then I smooth it out my pin so I'm always smoothing to make sure it's nice and flat once I go to quilt it together so now I'm gonna actually start basting my quilt and I use safety pins to do its have a big ol bag of them so I'm just gonna start in the middle and show you guys how I baste it now these blocks are 14 by 14 inches so they're good size box so I like putting four pins in each block and I just kind of put it spread out in the block so I'll go ahead and do that now I'll show you guys be basting the entire clothes I'll just do a couple of blocks for you because it's gonna be the same throughout the entire club so just spread it out you can see a little ripple here from where I have folded it once I completed the quilt top but that's alright so I'm just gonna start in the corner now I push it now there is a rug underneath here but that's alright what I do is I push my pin all the way through and then I pick it up so it's out of the carpet and then I just bring it back through so it's not connected but it is all the way through with the batting and the backing fabric so I've done that before I was working on a personal quilt in her hand there was a couple of safety pins that were stuck in the carpet underneath so just be careful when you're doing this over carpet so I've got this one block done now I like to stay several inches away from these scenes because I will quilt in all of these seams for every block so I don't want to have to be bothered with taking pins out you know if I'm too close to one of the scenes at least this way I can just start at one seam and go the whole length of the quilt and not worry about it so now we go into the next one as I go and you want to do this pretty much for all of your quilts not just you know t-shirt quilts or squares I mean you can do it for any kind of shape really so now this particular shirt this logo is I think it's screened on it's not I mean it's a different kind of print so if I put a needle through this white part it will leave a hole so with that I'm gonna try and get it in the purple parts this way I don't leave a hole in the logo itself so right here I just went through this pee and you'll never even know that there is a pin in there and over here I'm just going to go through this little purple ring [Music] so I got those two blocks tons so this is what I'm gonna keep doing for every block on here now I've got five blocks this way by six blocks this way so yeah 30 blocks well 28 blocks to go and then I'll be done pinning I will also pin my border so let me show you guys that alright Museum in a little bit so you can get a better idea okay so for the border what I like to do is I'll put a pin in these seeds right here I'll pin it this way and possibly here depends because I won't actually quilt the border until I finish doing all of my lines so make sure you guys can see that yeah I won't actually quilt the seams on the border until I finished all my lines in the quilt so by the time I do that the border I mean it's only a three inch border so I won't have to pin in between each little seam line but um if you have a larger border you know you definitely want to make sure it's secure before you get to quilting in that area or you could have ripples or puckers and then that won't be good all your hard work will be you know kind of ruined by a pucker so museum that out yeah alright so yeah I'm gonna keep basting the rest of my quilt and then we'll come back and move on to the next section okay so I went ahead and finished basting all of that part of the coil in that section over there but I left this last little corner here on basted so that I could show you guys how I do the corners just because obviously that's where you're gonna have the most loose material so I'm gonna go ahead and baste these four blocks here and zoom in a little bit there alright so I'm going to start from the inside of the quilt and work my way out in that way so it's push and I do so several times before I actually put my pins not just the corners but all over the blocks so now on this one and I like pushing from the pin line so I had all of these here but I want to get as close to those pins that are already anchored so I can start pushing here and push it out because the fabric from here in isn't going to move because it's already secured so I want to start from the pin line and then push my way out you can on nice and flat that sling but again I do this throughout the whole world and this particular quote is a simple style quilt but I do the same process for my collage style quilts as well you alright see oh my god walks left to go so I'm gonna move my pins over this way it was just a little bit right and again I'm putting four pins in each block you can put more if you like and the body that I'm using says to do your quilting about five inches apart so they pandas are I think they're a little more space than that I think these are probably this one is probably about seven or eight inches apart but these two are much closer so you can put as many as your life you can put one in the middle and you can go across the seam lines I just didn't because I don't want to have to worry about learning moving the pins while I'm closing it together great so we got one block left alright ok so go ahead and let's zoom out ok so the whole thing is based in and you probably can't see it too well just because the pins are so light or they're so tiny but the whole thing is based in - the border so I'll go ahead and do the border I'll go ahead and start down here at the bottom and I'll zoom in a little bit there okay well the border is a little bit easier because I'm just going to pin in the seam lines so I'm just going to push I'm gonna do the same thing and I'm going straight off onto my body so they'll both be nice and tight and I'm gonna actually pin towards the edge because I want to make sure that this stays in place so I'm probably about a quarter inch away from the edge of my border okay so let's keep doing this throughout the rest of my border until I get all of my seam lines pinned down but let me go ahead and show you the corner because I do like pinning the corner down even though there's not a seam you but this took me I think maybe I don't even think 20 minutes to get it all basted um obviously it'll determine it'll be determined by how big your quilt is how many coal blocks you have how intricate it is and also by the kind of quilting you're actually going to be doing for this particular quilt stray pin for this particular quilt I'm going to be quilting in all of the seam lines so here here and then also up and down and then because these blocks are so large I can't I can't just go with the seam lines and that's it I have to do my coating a lot closer than that so what I'll do is I'm going to go into each individual block so I'll zoom into that purple and white one right there so for that particular block I'm going to do you can call it trace quilting or maybe even echoing I don't know if echoing is the right term for it but I'm gonna quilt around the logo so that I'll keep it nice and secure and I might actually even quilt in that little squiggly line right there because that's purple shirt it's not the logo so my needle won't you know be piercing the logo so I'll probably quilt in that little line right there just to give it a little bit more extra secure Ness or maybe even in this purple line that goes around let's see here's a good one so this one I'm going to quilt there's a little line right along here I'll quilt in there and then I'll also do this little circle right here and I might do a little bit in the palm tree just so that it's spread out there's quilting kind of all throughout the block now this one is going to be a little bit more difficult because the logo is only on the top portion of the shirt that leaves a good I don't know maybe seven inches of the block I'm maybe more like eight or nine inches of the block or I don't have anything in there where I can quilt so hmm I'm not quite sure what I'm gonna do there I might just do two little slits kind of where my pins are now let's go up and down possibly and the thread that I use I use a clear monofilament thread on the top of all of my quilts so you can't see it and because I use such a low loft batting you really can't even see where the quilting is at unless you're really looking at it so if I just did two small little slits you really wouldn't even be able to see it but we'll see how it comes out I'm not sure I don't know I might try and think of something else to do in there because I got two blocks kind of like that there's that one and that one right there where the quilting or the logo is kind of up in one section of the shirt so it'll pose a little bit of a problem when it comes to quilting but those are the only two blocks that I see that are like that so all right so like I said I'm gonna go ahead and finish basting my border and then we'll come back and move on to the next step okay so now that the basting is all completed on the quilt it's time to move on to the next step and I went ahead and I already took off the tape that I had securing my backing fabric I took it off from all the edges because now we're going to actually trim along the edges and cut off the excess batting and backing fabric so I'm gonna go ahead and start over in that corner and you won't be able to see me for the first few seconds until I get back you know to this area but what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna cut probably about two inches away from the quilt top and I know a lot of people they'll tell you to leave you know I think four to six inches on each side but that's really if you're going to be going if you're going to take your quilt to a long-arm culture because they have to put clamps on the backing fabric and it pulls it nice and tight but since I'm not going to be doing this on a long arm I'm going to go ahead and cut it about two inches away because that's really all that I need so I'm gonna go ahead and start in that corner and then I'll work my way down all right so then I bought all of this excess of fabric plus all of this excess of batting and that you can either you know hang on to it and use it for other quilt projects or you could throw it away I mean I would hope you wouldn't throw that throw it away because this is a lot of batting and you can you know make placemats with it or even some miniature quilts or some walking's there's a whole bunch of stuff you could do with it so this is my excess backing fabric so I'm just gonna fold this up and kind of put it off to the side so what I'm gonna do the same thing along all four edges now over on my other two corners let's see over on those two edges I don't have near as much excess as I did over here and as I do on this edge down here so with that I could probably get away with not even having to trim off the edges um this one obviously I still have a lot so I am gonna turn this one but over there I might not need to but we'll see I don't know once I go I'm gonna go over there and pull up the back the batting and see how much space or how much background material I still have over there and then I'll decide from there but yeah so I'm gonna go ahead and trim off this edge and then pretty much it'll be on to the next step which is the actual quilting process all right so let me get this done and then we'll get on to the next step okay so I went ahead and finished trimming off the edges but I wanted to show you guys I was getting ready to pick it up and I figured let me show y'all what it looks like once you get it all basted down and what it should look like if you don't accidentally baste it to the carpet underneath so go ahead got this edge here see so it's coming up nicely I've not pinned it to the carpet underneath which is very good so I'm just gonna fold it over so you guys can get a better look at it so zoom in a little bit now you can just barely see some of the pins there there it's pretty hard because of the the color of the fabric it's pretty dark but it looks relatively nice and smooth let me zoom out a little bit there so if you just give it a tug there see so there aren't any creases or I mean there's you know little puckers and such because my fabric was pulled tight and my pins are going through it but there aren't any creases a lot of what you're seeing I think is probably shadow because I've got my door open back there this is better I just stepped over here see but that's pretty much what you want your back to look like now if you saw somewhere in there where it was folded over and you pinned it like that now is the time to fix it because of you so through that and you you know I mean that's it you're gonna have to go back and pull out I don't even know how many stitches and then relay everything out and then pull your back fabric tight and it'll just be a pain so I suggest before you move on to the next step look at the back and make sure it looks good because yeah once you start quilting it oh I don't even oh I couldn't even imagine having to undo it and fix something like that so um yeah so we can fold this up all right we'll come close again there see that looks good I don't see any puckers or anything where well any folds where it'll you know pose a problem and then I'll flip over the last little bit okay all right so that's the last bit it looks good to me I don't see any folds or anything that'll pose a problem once I get to the quilting process beautiful all right and I just would like to say before I light everything down I did give my whole living room a good vacuum because we do have a dog he's over there in the corner and the last thing I want is for there to be dog hair all over my clients quills so I made sure to give it a good vacuuming before I laid everything out and now we're done with the floor part so now I'm gonna gather it up and take it to my sewing table and we'll get on to the next step all right so the next step is to actually start quilting the quilt and I've already got everything I'll put together you guys already saw that and so I read ahead and laid it on top of my quilting table and I actually have my extension table under here and this just gives me a little bit of a bigger surface that I can use to move the quilt around I have my quilting gloves to help me move the fabric around this yellow side this fabric on this side and then this is a yellow rubber it helps kind of grip the fabric and lets you move it around a little bit easier I also went ahead and put in my clear monofilament thread that I like using for my quilt tops because the backing fabric is mostly black I will be using a black thread for my bobbin so that'll blend in very nicely these settings that I'm running on my sewing machine is I have my stitch length set at two and this is a juke et al 2010 Q so I have my speed set right in the middle tension on the bobbin and the upper is normal I did have to adjust it a little bit because of the monofilament thread what else oh and I went ahead and I put my walking foot on let me go ahead and show you guys that in case you don't know what a walking foot is there you go so this foot it has feet underneath the presser foot and what it does is it helps grab the fabric and feed it through and so it works in conjunction with your feed dogs which you're on the bottom so you get a nice even feed on the top and the bottom so I went ahead and put that on and just as a little side note for anybody that has a Juke et al 2010 cue or is thinking about it when you have your walking foot on you cannot use the automatic needle threader there is a little arm right here from the walking foot that when you try pushing the needle threader down it hits it right there so you can't actually thread the needle so I learned that the first time I tried using this but I figured I'd just throw that out there so go ahead and zoom back out there you go alright so what I'm gonna do is I went ahead and I have the quilt in my sewing machine and it's sitting here in the throat space but what I did is I'm going to start in the middle of the quilt and I'm going to sew down one of the lines so I'm just gonna start here and I'm gonna go all the way down since it's not a collage style I'll be able to sew through all the rows here which is three and then I'm gonna do that for all of the bottom rows and then once I do the bottom I'm gonna flip it around and I'm gonna do the top now I'm doing that to try and get more of an even stitch I guess you can well not really even stitch I'm doing that because I feel like if I was start at the very top and come down like it might shift some of the fabric around a little bit and to try and alleviate that I'm just gonna start in the middle and sew down and then flip it around and go in the middle and then go up but yeah that's just what I usually like to do but you can do it however you want to do it if you want to start at the top and just go all the way down go ahead I mean it's not going to move the fabric you know inches at a time it might be a little bit off but it's not going to be you know inches so what I'll go to do is I want to go ahead and get situated and then I'll zoom in and show you guys the first stitch line okay so I've got my quilt placed where it needs to be now I'm going to go ahead and bring my bobbin thread up and to do that I'll just lower the needle once then bring it back up [Music] all right there okay so I've got my black bobbin and my clear top thread and I'm just going to pull it to the back press your foot I'm gonna go ahead and do locking stitches when I start off so all that is is you're going to come forward a couple of stitches and then go backwards and then come back and not just make sure that your thread isn't going to come out since I'm starting in the middle over the quilt instead of at the very edge I need to make sure that that stitch isn't going to come out at all so go ahead and start alright so now I'm going to be sewing through the entire seam line all the way to the end of the quilt now what this is called this is called stitching in the ditch because you are going to be stitching right in between the two blocks right here and the trick is to get it right between the two fabrics I mean it it does happen where you might go over onto one side of the fabric a little bit but um it's you know since it's a clear thread it's not going to be that noticeable honestly so I'm gonna go ahead and put my glove on and this will just help me feed it feed the quilt through a little bit better I'm just going to have it on one hand there because this side is pretty open so I won't have too much of a hard time feeding the side of the quilt so I'm just gonna get a big old bunch down here I'm just gonna flatten it out in let's get going okay and then as you quilt down your line you just want to readjust the rest of the quilt to make sure it's not getting snagged on anything and to make sure it's not hanging down and preventing you from feeding it through and each time you're going to start just want to smooth it out by pulling the fabric apart you're going to be opening up that ditch right there for you to get your needle right in between the two [Applause] and it gets easier as you get closer to the bottom this is [Applause] see so that was one row that we just got through got two more to go for this line [Music] [Applause] we're coming up to the end of the second row and you just have to maneuver the quilt as you go want it to be nice and flat where you're working and we're coming into the last row [Applause] just making sure there's nothing underneath sometimes your quilt can roll under and you can potentially sew it to itself and that's not good [Applause] we're coming up to the end we're coming up to our border now because this quilt has a border I can't just sew right off the edge and I'm sure you guys can't see my finger so let me keep sewing here a little bit [Applause] there so this is my border and usually what you could do if you didn't have a border you would just keep sewing and you would sew right off the edge and into the body and when you do that you don't have to worry about locking your stitch because this edge of the quilt is gonna be encased by the binding when you put your binding on so it would look like that but since I have a border I can't just sew right off the edge so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna come to the edge right here between the block and the border and then I'm gonna do a back stitch and come back so let's go ahead and do that there you go and I could cut my thread here but I'm going to just bring it up and I'm gonna cut it myself instead of having my machine cut it and by doing this when I bring my thread up for the next row I'm gonna have enough of a tail from my bobbin thread that I'll actually be able to get it up because if I use the thread cutter on my machine it cuts it so short that when you try pulling up your bobbin you're not gonna have enough thread to get it up which isn't necessarily a problem you could just do a couple stitches in one area and then you don't have to worry about bringing up that bobbin thread so now let me show you guys the line that we just did so let me grab the camera okay so this is the seam line that we just did so now I'm just gonna show you I'm gonna try and open it up so that you guys can see you can't even see that thread see look nothing it just disappears right into the quilt and that's why I love using the clear Fred because you can't see it at all so now let me flip it over and show you guys the back okay so now here's the back seeing you can just see a little bit of the shine from the clear monofilament thread and then the rest of it is the black thread I mean I know it's kind of difficult to see but that's kind of the point see so it just disappears right into the backing okay and I'll pull it back out I'll show you guys more the top so I'm trying to pull it up let's see so you just really can't even see it and I think I think there was a little part where I went off the edge a little bit let me see if I can show you guys that because you know I mean I am human so I'm not perfect I'm not gonna get it on there every single time so let's see if I can't adjust the zoom for you there you go okay so see on the green right just a little bit I went onto the green fabric right there and so you can see the little the holes from the needle but you can't even see the thread see so if you back out have you back out it's like it's not even there so that's why I love this clear monofilament thread and I highly recommend it because it doesn't take away from the quilt itself it just it secures it and you don't have to worry about it alright so that was this one whole line so now I'm going to scoot over to the next one and I'm going to go ahead and do the next one okay so now we're ready to do our next row stitching and I went ahead I already brought up my bobbin thread and those two tails are right here alright now just like the first stitch I'm going to do a locking stitch so go ahead and get a couple of stitches and back stitch start going down the room now the only bad thing one of the not really bad things one of the I don't know things that you have to deal with when doing t-shirt closes these two t-shirts are pretty close to the same color which makes it a little bit more difficult to get right in the seam line because units hard in this little presser foot it's really hard to see the line between the two shirts but um it's alright we'll make do I'm going to try and make sure that this isn't in your way I hope it's not I'm just smoothing this out we're going a little bit slower this way just because it's hard to tell the difference between the futures they don't want to end up coming off of that seam line and not realize it so I'm just readjusting again I'm going to check and make sure that there's nothing underneath [Music] and this will get progressively more and more challenging as you go especially I still have one more seam line to view over there and because I'm coming down that means I have to put all of this into the throat of my machine which just makes it you know more and more difficult to get it to lay nice and flat and again I hope this isn't in the way [Music] all right now we're into the fabrics that are two different colors which makes it a lot easier to be able to get right in between them alright so something else to know when you're working with t-shirt fabric is that regular needles well there's different kinds of needles there's a regular needle and there's a ballpoint needle now regular needles they pierce through the fabric they go straight through it a ballpoint needle is not as sharp as a regular needle and what it does is when it goes into the fabric because it doesn't have a sharp tip it has more of a rounded tip it kind of Wiggles its way between the fibers of the material so instead of piercing it it mm kind of digs around in it so it doesn't make a hole in it and that's kind of important to know because t-shirt fabric it is possible for your needle to leave holes in the fabric if you're not using a ballpoint needle and then over time you know washing and use that hole will start opening up and then your quilt can start you know having some issues and need to be repaired so I am using a ballpoint needle so we're on the second to the last row right now [Music] they're almost to the last row I'm just gonna start pulling the rest of that quilt through okay I'm checking the bottom we're good there pick up the end of this and these two fabrics are kind of a pain too because even though they're two different color fabrics under the presser foot where you have less light it gets harder to tell where the two fabrics [Music] now we'll go ahead and backs it go ahead and cut again you can use your bread cutter I'm choosing not to all right there you go so we just finished that one okay and this one I did come off onto the purple a little bit so you can see the thread a little bit better so let me grab it okay so here's the seam line that we just did mm let's see if I can get it so you guys can see it a little bit better it's kind of hard to tell in the camera there you go so you can see it a little bit where it's not perfectly in that ditch right there but it's really close and again because I'm using the clear thread when you back away zoom out you can't even see it so now if this was white thread you would be able to you would definitely be able to see it especially on this darker fabric you would be able to see it so that's why I'm a huge fan of this clear thread so okay so now what I'm going to do so I'm gonna go ahead and finish up I still have this seam line here and this is the last row or last column I mean so I'm gonna finish up this seam line and then I still have I think two seam lines on the other side of the quilt that I still need to do so I'm gonna go ahead and finish up the bottom and then I'm going to turn it around and do the top section and then once I start doing my side to side rows I'll go ahead and come back so I can show you guys how to do those or what it's like doing that alright guys so here's the back of the quilt after I just finished quilting down all the columns and there's five columns so this is column one two three four five so you can see well you can't really see unless I'm kind of standing to block the lights you can see the shadows but that's it and let me get close see if I can zoom in and show you guys the stitching I mean you're not really gonna be able to see it honestly because it just blends right into the fabric so let me try up here where the lights hitting it a little bit let's see I can get my camera to focus there you go okay so you can just barely see it I mean and that's good that's what I was going for that's why I used a black thread back here so you couldn't see it so that's what it looks like so I'll go ahead and turn it around so you guys can see the front so far okay so here's the front and again I already quilted down this line or a row this one this one and that one I've not done the edge for the borders yet I'm gonna do that very last right before I do the binding but as you can tell I mean you can't really even tell that it's been quilted you know I mean I can grab it right here and that's really the only way that you know because it's not coming oh it's not coming away from the batting and the backing but you can't even see the stitching at all and that's part of why I like using the clear thread and why I do stitch in the ditch because I'm securing everything I'm securing all three layers and it's not taking away from the t-shirts themselves so when you look at this all you're gonna see is the shirts you're not gonna see you know white thread jumping off from out of the ditch and and I don't do an all-over quilt pattern on my quilts for a couple of reasons one I'm still learning how to do it and two I I don't want to take away from the shirts because if I did an all-over quilt pattern especially if I did it in white thread you're gonna see it and pretty much all of these shirts because they're all relatively darker colors I mean the gray not so much that white one up there you're not gonna see it but all of these darker colors you would definitely see an all-over quilt pattern so that's why I just kind of stick with what I do quilt in the ditch and then I also do quilting around the individual logos so now that we're done with the columns I can go ahead and do the rose which is going to be quilting in there there there and all the way up to the top now also there are a couple of shirts so like this one here is pieced this one is pieced and where's the other one there's one more shirt that I had to piece up that right next to it so because those are pieced I will quilt in the lines going across there and in these lines here it'll just add it you know a little bit more secure Nissa specially this one here since the logo is on the top part and there's gonna be this whole block on the bottom that's not gonna have anything in it so by quilting in that seam right there it'll help give it that little extra bit of security to stay nice and neat so I'm gonna go ahead and set this up on my machine and again I'm gonna start in the middle and I'm gonna quilt out now because there are five columns obviously you know I'm either gonna have to start right here which is not quite the middle or there which is still not quite the middle so what I'll do is honestly I'll probably just start right here then quilt out and I'll do that all the way down and all the way up and then once I finish that I'll flip it around and then I'll quilt the remaining section of the B rows so let me go ahead and get this set up and then I'll go ahead and show you guys the first couple of the quilting lines alright so I've got the quilt set up and I did roll it usually I just stuff it in the throat space of my machine but because I'm essentially quilting from the very bottom of the quilt on up so I can do mine my rows I it wasn't gonna fit and I didn't want to deal with it so I did go ahead and roll it and so now I'm gonna start I went ahead and I pulled up my bobbin thread and that's down here here's my top thread alright so now I'm going to go ahead and start by doing a walking stitch so now I can go ahead and start sewing and I just have to be mindful of my role to make sure I'm moving it along with this section of the quilt so here we go straighten it out down here - that's not a bad thing about rolling it as it can be a little bit cumbersome to deal with it and make sure that the rest of your quilt is nice and flat because if it's not flat up here it's not gonna be flat underneath and underneath is where you really need to be careful because you can get a pucker in your backing fabric and not even know it until you're completely done with the quill and you're inspecting it at the very end so yeah you definitely want to make sure it's as flat as possible up here so as I'm pulling my roll through I'm adjusting it in my lap and I'm adjusting it underneath the roll in here okay so we're a couple of inches we're probably about five and a half inches away from our first seam line that we're going to be crossing over and this is where you want to make sure that you're pulling it nice and tight so that you don't have any puckers in your fabric when you get to that first seam line nice I'm about an inch and a half away from that seam line okay this is the seam line I'm talking about and we're just gonna cross right over top of it but again that's why you want to make sure it's nice and flat because if you end up having something like this on the top you're gonna have something like that on the back to not put a wrinkle in it but you guys get the idea okay so I'm still gonna be pulling it open so I can make sure I get it right in between the two fabrics right over it no problem it's kind of wrinkled underneath my roll so I'm just straightening that out I hope you guys can still see okay so onto the next one and sometimes you can only go a couple of inches before you have to readjust and so it can be a little bit of a slow process but that's alright see only a couple inches and then I got to readjust smoothing it out on the bottom side we're a couple inches away from our next seam line so my world is starting to pop up so I really hope you guys can still see and I'm coming into these two fabrics that are they're different colors but they're still pretty close and it's going to be difficult to get right in the middle there but we'll make do all right so we'll finish up this line you're almost to the end and if that the end of that roll is sticking up I'm sorry so we're coming to our border so I'm going to stop and then I'm going to back stitch alright so we go in and cut that thread so what I'm going to do since I'm at the end of the quilt I'll go ahead and take it out and flip it over so you guys can see the back okay so here's the back section of the quilt that I or the quilting that I just did so these two lines here were the lines that I did for my columns this line here is the first line of quilting that I did for my bottom row of the quilt so I mean you can see here it looks very very nice I don't have any puckers let me go ahead and zoom in so you guys can get a better look at that hopefully it'll focus for you [Music] seria okay there see look at that there it didn't gather up it didn't do anything that it should not have done and this is because I pulled the backing fabric really tight when I was laying it out so let's go ahead and move up and here we go see so like if you're not careful like if I pushed enough I could get it to fold over and like it could do this and then you if you sewed over that you're forever gonna have that little seam right there in the back of your quilt and like I said if you do that and you don't realize it until the very end I mean this is it's I don't even I wouldn't even want to try and figure out how to fix that so you know I put a wrinkle in it but but it looks very very nice there's no overlapping there's nothing right there that little seam line I think I've got one more seam line down here but I don't know if you guys will be able to really see it grab it there you go see but it stopped because I haven't completed the rest of my row so but even so it looks good already I love it I love when things come together all right so that's that so now I'll just keep quilting the rest of my lines I'm gonna finish doing the rest of my rows and then once I get all of that done then I'll come back and I'll show you guys the next step of the quilting that I do which is quilting around or in the individual blocks okay so the next step is going to be quilting the individual blocks and I've chosen to start on this shimmering Knights block here it's it's relatively easy it's gonna I'm going to quilt around this little Halfmoon here so it should be you know pretty easy nice smooth curves they're not very sharp nothing like that now I went ahead and I did change my foot so you can see it there that is my quilting foot if you remember for the last step I had on my walking foot so this is my quilting foot so all right there we go so let me get set up and we'll go ahead and start quilting okay so this is the block that we're starting with I went ahead and took out there was a safety pin right around here I went ahead and took it out so that I won't get in the way of my quilting and I'm going to start up here at the point of this I'm just kind of eyeballing where I want my needle to go so I can bring up my bobbin thread keeps running away from me hmm okay so now you just want to go slow now I will say before I started doing this I have a sample quilts that I use to practice my free motion quilting arm I went ahead and did a little bit of quilting on that just to kind of get warmed up because I you know you don't want to start off on either a client's quilt or quilt that has a lot of meaning without warming up first so I went ahead and did that got my quilting glove and I'm just going to go slow now what I'm going to do is I'm going to follow I'm just gonna trace right around the moon and I will have to go through a little bit of the logo and you'll see what I'm talking about once I get to the wording because the wording and the moon is connected so all right so I'm gonna start off with a couple of stitches right there at the beginning just to kind of lock it in place there you go all right so now I'm going to start by going on the top side first once you get comfortable with your speed and stitching then you can increase it if you like if not there's nothing wrong with staying slow and steady suggesting my quilt a little bit alright I'm just trying to stay as close to that moon as I can without going into it and every time I need to readjust my hands I am waiting for my needle to finish in the quilt so it'll hold my place okay so now I'm starting to come up to the lettering when we get a little bit closer yeah okay so now right here you can see what I'm talking about by how the moon and the lettering connects so I will have to go through that but it's not a big deal I'm just making sure everything is nice and flat there's nothing wrong with going slow and study and just as a reminder currently my feet dogs are down okay so we've got maybe about another three inches left before we get to the tip of the moon on the bottom side okay so we got about half inch left okay so what I'm gonna do is as I get towards the very tip of this moon I'm going to stop and then I'm going to start coming back so I can go back on the inside of the moon and that will give us that really nice sharp point at the very tip okay so I'm stopping and now I'm gonna come back up on the top side pick up speed a little bit now as your needle speed increases your man's speed makes you increase as well that'll give you that nice consistent stitch length okay so now this is where it's gonna get a little bit tricky because my logo is actually behind my foot so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to pick up my foot and rotate my quilt just a little bit now I'm not gonna move the whole thing because I don't need to I have enough quilt here to play with but I am just going to turn it a little bit so that I can see where I'm going there and that's a good idea to do when you're doing your quilting because if you can't see where you're going then you're not going to get a very good stitch because you're gonna be unsure all right so now I'm going to continue on [Music] I hope you guys can still see that so now if I wanted to now I could turn my quilt back to the way it was since I've come out of that portion of the Moon that was behind but what I'm going to go ahead and do is while I'm stopped I'm going to go ahead and cut my threads from the very beginning of that moon yep this way I don't have to worry about them as I come to the end of my moon here my clothes back on alright so I've got a couple of more inches and then we'll be done with the moon I'll put the foot back down I'm gonna just my hands one last time I'm just gonna take a few stitches just to make sure my new pass connect now I'm gonna do a few stitches in place and now we can go ahead and cut our thread now those last few stitches will just lock us in make sure the stitching doesn't come out I can't find my bobbin thread so let me grab the camera so I can show you guys a close-up of what we just did okay so here's a close-up of what we just did so you can see the stitching there there's my point looks very nice now you can see I mean it's I stay along the shape of the logo but there are some places where I you know come away from the logo a little bit more in places where I'm close so this I mean what I mean it still looks fine it's you know there's nothing wrong with that but if stuff like that bothers you that's where this clear thread really comes in handy because again you're not going to see what I just did unless you're actually up on the quilt looking at it like we are right now so there's the other end so but now this was in white thread it would be a little bit more obvious so let me go ahead and show you guys the back see now this will be harder to see because I'm using black thread on the back but you can still see it see that's relatively good see so you just have the shape of that moon here on the back of the quilt now this you'll be able to see if you have the quilt flipped upside down on your bed or something you'll be able to see the individual shapes because it leaves the shadows of the you know the valleys and stuff so you will be able to see that but only the shape we're not going to see the stitching so there's that seeing so it looks really nice so alright so that was one block and I'm looking at it you want to make sure that you do get your quilting within the measurements from what the batting says so this measurement here is a little bit big to leave uncoated so what I might do is I might continue the stars down here I might do a star like over here and over here and you're really not going to be able to see it a whole lot because it's the clear thread but you'll be able to see it on the back so what I'll do is honestly I'll probably quilt in this star and this one right here and then I'll carry that pattern on over here but we're go ahead and do that a little bit later let me find another block that I can do for you guys right now so we'll go ahead and do this one so this one I think what I'll do is I'll just follow this shape right here and because this extends what I'll do is I'll come up here come out and out in and then I'll continue my shape right here and I'll probably do the same thing come on the outside right here I'll go through that little bit of G from the Vegas then I'll come back up right here and then that'll be good to secure this block and then I could also actually go along with the Vegas here just because it's really a nice-looking V and I think that'll be really cool on the back of the quilt so let me go ahead and get this set up and then we'll go ahead and start quilting this block here alright so I pulled up my bobbin thread and I put my needle in the down position so now all I need to do are a couple of locking stitches and then I can go ahead and start my quilting around logo so let's go ahead and take a couple of stitches and I'm just gonna go right into it so I like to take three or four and then off we go and I'm going to stick pretty close to the logo because this one kind of goes off in two different directions I don't want to go too far away from it I'm gonna go ahead and stop so I can take out this pin they readjust the clubs a little bit take that one out so I guess I'll just go ahead and go around this silver and red mark here I had originally planned to just go straight through it but I plan on going around it up at the top of the logo so I'm going I'm go ahead and go around it down here to want to kind of stay the same we add just a little bit and I do have a needle coming up our pin coming up over here but because it's not super close to my logo i'm just gonna leave it there for now I'm going to go around these two little silver bars I'm gonna stop so I'm gonna take this pin out now I was looking ahead see if I have any other pins that are gonna get in the way I'm not going to take out my top pin now just in case so we'll go ahead and continue up so I went through a little bit of the G which I I knew I was going to that's alright because it's not necessarily a solid line so I just cut off my tails for my thread because what I've been doing well what I'm going to do is I'm going to continue my stitch and I'm gonna actually go into my first stitch a little bit so I make sure it's one continuous line I don't want to see any breaks I reached the end and now I'm actually going into it a little bit doing some locking stitches okay so now I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to trace the word Vegas here the V I think I'm going to yeah I'll just go ahead and go around all the letters so what I'm going to do for that is I'm gonna pick up my needle pick up my presser foot I'm not going to cut my thread what I'm going to do is I'm just gonna drag it over here put my presser foot down and I'm gonna do a couple of locking stitches here okay and now here we go around the bead now by doing this I'm saving thread because I'm not having to pull it out and cut it I'm saving time because I'm not having to pull it out and cut it okay so now I'm coming back down to the logo so I'm going into my original stitching and I matched it and now I'm just continuing all of the rest of my feet a little bit and again I'm gonna overlap my stitches and then I'm going to do a couple of locking stitches in there there you go so we'll pull that up and I'm going to jump right on over to my II then the same thing I'm going to do a couple of locking stitches and then I'm going to get going okay so now this does not connect so what I'm going to do is the same thing I'm going to wow this one I went over my stitching which is alright let's go ahead and travel back up the G and then we'll go ahead and backtrack to this little tail go back into my original stitching and then I'm coming back up there you we're jumping over to the a same thing blocking stitches [Music] they went into logo a little bit there but again because this is the clear thread you're not going to be able to see it and on the back it's going to look completely natural the only people that will know that I do that is me and you guys so that's the end of the word so now I'll go ahead and cut to my thread all right so now we have all these little lines of thread connecting so what we're going to do is we're going to start back over here I'm going to snip that snip I'm going to set that aside so I can get the rest of them [Music] and because we did those walking stitches we don't have to worry about any of these stitches coming out over time after washing or anything like that so it's nice and secured go ahead and throw these little threads away now I have to do the same thing for the threads on the back and that's the same way again to so I'm just gonna pull this out and flip it there you go so now I just find my first thread which is right here and I hope you guys can see I know i zoomed in for this shot so I don't know this might be out of your camera frame but if you can't see it pretty much I'm just sipping on a little prince there you go all right so let me grab the camera and I'll show you guys a close-up here so you can try and see remember it was in the G where I crossed over my stitching which was a mistake but it's going to look completely fine back here so let me grab the camera and show that to you guys all right so here's the lettering now granted it's all upside down and backwards but there is let's see right there is where I crossed over my stitching line and again it was an accident but it doesn't look bad on the back side see you see see so you can see it there see so any mistakes that I know I made on the front look just fine on the back which is good plus because I did this with the black thread on the back my well it's it's allows it allows forgiveness so you can't really see mistakes but again mistakes that I make aren't gonna be noticed by other people it's gonna but I'm gonna notice it because I know that I made a mistake but nobody else is gonna notice it all right so let's go ahead now I have been doing some quilt seeing on the rest of the quilt so I'll just go ahead and show that to you guys right now I've got most of it done I actually only have a few blocks left but I'm so I'll show you this one so this in memory of beau Emily and Morgan you can see I did I traced around it but I went kind of far and actually I used my my foot as my guide so where the needle was I kept the logo right on the outside of my foot all the way around so that's how I got that nice little fluff to it and it adds kind of like a nice little I don't know it makes it look poufy which I kind of like so I just went around all of them just like that there you go and let's see let me show you guys this one here well here's the palm tree one so for this one I stitched right down here and you can't even see it because I got so close and then I stitched around the palm tree I did the little coconuts and then I came out into each of the palm leaves right here now I didn't go around all of the palms I just went straight down the middle and then back up and back up and back um but this shirt here now this is one of the shirts that the logo was up here at the top and there was nothing else below so what I did was instead of doing the slits that I had originally thought I was going to do I just I measured this out which was nine and a half inches and these two lines were an inch and half apart so I measured down an inch and a half inch and a half inch and a half all the way down and then I did another line right underneath it but I shortened it by an inch so this is nine and a half eight and a half seven and a half six and a half all the way down and that's what I did so it's like a little pyramid here now you can still I drew I used a marking pencil on here not a marking pencil but it's my disappearing ink pen that I you down here this race starting to disappear used to be a bright purple but now it's because of the air its air soluble but so now you can see it's like a nice little pyramid and I think it goes pretty good in here I thought it looked pretty nice so let's see what else can I show you guys like I said I've been doing this pretty much all day today so this one here I'm again I use my quilting foot as a buffer so I'm a little bit away from the logo let me see if I can show that to you guys let me grab my phone I've got my flashlight on so that y'all can see we got some storms coming in so it's kind of dark out but so there you can see how I'm a little bit away from the logo all the way around and then I also quilted in this line right here I quilted all the way around right here which got a little difficult down here because this line is much more narrow than it is up here so yeah so it's just a bunch of the quilting that I've been doing today so far on this one and here's another one that I did now this one I also left connected and I still need to go through and cut my connecting my connecting threads amongst all the letters and everything same thing on the back there's another one I quilted this part in this part so I still have like I said a couple of more blocks to do and then once I finished quilting all of the individual blocks then we'll move on to the next section which will be actually quilting on the the border so once I get everything done then we'll go ahead and secure down our border and go in all the joining lines so let me go ahead and finish up these last couple of blocks and we'll move on to the next step okay so I have finished quilting all the individual blocks of the quilt so now time to sew down our border now I'm going to start up here at this seam line so I'm gonna start going down and for that you can do you can do it two ways you can pull up your bobbin thread here if you want I'm not going to do that because I'm actually going to do a locking stitch now you could do that if you pulled your bobbin thread up you could just take several stitches right there and then go but I'm just gonna go ahead and leave my bobbin thread down below and I'm just gonna do a locking stitch now I have switched out my foot I took off the free motion quilting foot and I put my walking foot back on and I brought my feed dogs back up as well so I'm going to go ahead and lower my presser foot yeah we'll take a couple of stitches and I'm gonna back stitch all right now I'm gonna make sure I have my quilt not pulling down so that I can feed it through nicely alright smooth it out and we're ready to go go pull up some more and again you want to make sure you smooth it out each time just so you know that you have nice crisp lines and you're not going to have any puckering all right so we're coming up to our first sewed seam intersection and that's gonna be this one right here so again before you get to it now I'm closed right now but maybe about two or three inches before you get to this you want to make sure you're not gonna have any kind of gathering right here because if you have this right here you're the ya know you don't want to silver something like that because then you're gonna get a fold and it's gonna be like that in your clothes so you know by checking it a few inches before here that'll give you time to try and fix it if you do have something like that but if you have something like this there's no way you can fix that that's like a half inch on each side that's like an inch difference and yet you have that that pretty much requires you to take out some stitches to fix that all right so I'm gonna keep flattening it out and I'm going to cross over my seam line going right over it you don't have to do anything special I'll show you guys a little bit more I'm not gonna show you all me sewing the entire side side border because that will get boring I imagined and for this part because you're doing a very long straight seam feel free to go whatever speed you're comfortable with if you want to fly down this seam by all means go ahead let's see s see if I can get it up a little bit faster okay see so do whatever you're comfortable with if you want to go slow and study definitely do that you don't want to end up trying to go fast and then veer off course all right so I'm just going to keep sewing down the side seam and once I get a couple of inches from the bottom I'll go ahead and come back and show you guys what to do at one of the corners okay so I've come down to the end of the quilt and I'm going to show you guys what I like to do when I come down to a corner so now depending on how your border is if you even have a border if you don't have a boarding or not gonna be doing this step but depending on how your border is pieced your border right here might come all the way down this particular one doesn't so what I'm going to do is I'm going to come down the seam and then I'm gonna turn the quilt and come out this way and finish it up now I could stop I could stop right here and do a locking stitch and then I could start my seam out here and work my way in but I'm not gonna do that I personally don't like coming in from the outside of my quilt I think some people do come in like that I I don't like it so I'm going to do is I'm going to come down and I'm just going to go right off the edge and then when I come to do this seam I'm gonna start right here go forward do a back stitch and then start my seam so let's go ahead and do that there you go so I'm gonna pick up my presser foot my needle stops automatically in the down position so if your machine does not have that option then simply turn the handwheel on the side to get your needle to stop in the down and then you can rotate your Kuo okay so I'm going to drop my presser foot back down I'm gonna go ahead and remove this pin there you go I'm just gonna sew right off the edge so here we go probably about a I don't know that's probably about an inch off the edge and then I'm gonna cut my thread there we go now because you came off the edge into the batting you don't have to do a locking stitch because you're gonna cut this off and then this part right here is actually going to be encased in the binding so you won't have to worry about any kind of unraveling of your thread or anything like that all right so we finished that so now I'm gonna turn the quilt and I'll actually turn the rest of it off-camera but I'm gonna turn the quilt so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to start right here and then would come down this side seam all right and it'll be the same like what I just did how I showed you guys this starting from the beginning so I'm gonna go ahead and do this side seam and then once I finish that I already sewed the two other sides of the quilt so I just have this one left to do but once I finish that then I'll come back and I'll show you guys sewing the the individual gatherings of your border so like here I'm gonna do this one I'll show that to you guys so let me go ahead and finish up this last thing or this left side seam okay so I finished sewing all around my border on all four sides of the quilt so now the next step is going to be to sew down all of the seams where the border the different colors of my board joined together so I'm gonna start right here and I'm gonna go ahead and move remove the safety pins before I start my stitching this way I don't have to worry about stopping when I'm you know in the middle of it so it's gonna pull out my thread a little bit again I'm just gonna start right here I'm gonna back stitch and then I'm gonna go right off the edge of the quote I'm not gonna bother pulling up my bobbin thread there you go and these will go relatively quickly since there's not very many of them on the quilt I think there's maybe I think there's six on the top and bottom [Music] I think 10 on the sides if I remember correctly and then all I'll do once I finish is I'll go through and I'll snip off my threads up here and if there's some in the back see like right here you can see a little bit of my bobbin thread so I'll just come through and snip that off to you later on but it's not I'm not going to do it right now just because I want to get all of these done all at once and then I'll do all of my thread clipping all at once so yeah before I start I'm just going to smooth it out make sure it's laying nice and flat right off the thread and move on to the next one and you're just gonna do this Wow this is what I do on my borders but um you don't have to like if you're gonna do an all-over quilt pattern you could just do that and you wouldn't even have to worry about going down the individual seams but since I'm not doing an all-over quilt pattern and I am going to secure these down by going by doing what I'm doing now so I think I'll do one more though sure you guys will get the hang of it yeah and the straightening this out so I'm just gonna keep doing this all along the four sides of my quilt and then once I finish with that we'll go on to the next step and we're honestly almost done it's very exciting all right okay so now the next step in the finishing of the quilt is to be to prepare your binding now this is the very last step that you're gonna be doing for the quilt is attaching the binding so now they're different there are a couple of different ways that you can go about binding the quilt so now these are binding they're quilt binding that I bought at jo-ann or no these I got at Walmart actually now I bought these two kind because these were the two that they had there and I wanted to show y'all both of them so that you kind of knew what they were like when you opened it so now we'll start with this one and I'll just zoom in actually instead of bringing it up to the camera there you go so this is bias tape wide single fold now I will say I have never used store-bought binding I always make my own I find that it's more cost effective and you can kind of get it I mean if you make it yourself you can use any kind of fabric any print any design any color anything you whereas if you try and buy it store-bought you're gonna be a lot more limited on colors and design so now this one this bias tape wide single fold again I've never used this before but this is what it looks like it's about one-inch it's just shy of one inch maybe 7/8 inch but you open it and it's folded it's folded in half well it's it's folded the two edges are folded in so like that and this is what it looks like so now when you open it this measure is about one and a half inches again I've never used this but I imagine what you would do is you would sew it onto the quilt say this is your quilt it's nice and at the edge okay so you would sew it on wall would be on this side actually there so this is a side of your the edge of your quilt so you would sew your tape on like this so you would just stitch right down the side and then you do that all the way around your quilt and then once you finish you're gonna flip the quilt over I'll go ahead and turn it because you want this side to be in your machine throat space and then you would fold this back over on to this side and then you would stitch down this side or hand stitch I do all of my binding by the way--by machine I don't do any hand stitching so this is what the binding this particular kind of binding would look like on your quilt it's nice and neat now again this is bias binding now what that means is if this is your strip of fabric this is your selvage and this is your selvage and these are the two raw edges bias is this way it goes across the grain versus regular binding goes up and down and you could go side to side if you really want to I've never done it side to side I always do my binding up and down bias binding is going at an angle it's going crosswise and the reason for is by going crosswise like this you're getting the fabric more stretchy this way it's very much more stretchy than up and down and that comes in handy when you're going around circles so if you have scalloped edges and scalloped edges are the ones where they're kind of like this it's kind of like a little ripple you know what I mean this is where that comes in handy because it's much easier to him to maneuver it around the circle of the quilt obviously it doesn't look like it right now but if you're actually sewing it on it's much easier if you do it on the bias so that is this right here and this pack here is three yards and I don't quite remember how much I paid for it um that probably would have been useful information for you but I don't remember honestly and I'm sorry okay so the next one this is double fold bias tape quilt binding and this is also three yards again I don't remember how much it is but this is what it looks like now this one you open it up like this and then you open it up again now this one is much wider than the other one this one is actually three and a half inches so this is what it looks like and these two edges fold in and then this folds in again and then same thing you would do the same process for putting it onto your quilt except this side here is going to be the side that you sew down first so we would sew it down like this on one side of your quilt you stitch down here and then you would flip your quilt over I'm going to turn it around and then you would well maybe it's easier if I showed you this way so you sew down here and then you're going to pull your binding over fold it over like that actually that's pretty thin so well the only way to do again I've never used this finding so I'm not 100% positive but I imagine you show it down here and then you flip it over I can do it and fold it down this way now this is very complicated the way I'm doing it and I hope you guys are getting the gist of it but that's the back and then this is what it'll look like in the front just a lot better I'm sure so there's that all right turn it over but yeah so this is the other kind of binding that Walmart had available very good but again I always make my binding but if you don't have the time it can be a little bit time I mean it takes a little bit of time it's not terrible I mean if you're if you're doing all of this to do the quilt then you obviously have a little bit of time available so making your own binding isn't going to be a huge you know time consuming thing so I'm just gonna put these away and then I'm going to show you guys how I make my binding and it's actually really easy and like I said it's very cost effective because you could buy a yard of fabric to say on sale or on clearance even and I always I usually use black binding on my quilts unless the client asks for a specific color or design or something like that so you could get very nice cotton fabric in black or even any other solid color usually on clearance or get a coupon for jo-ann fabrics or something like that you can get at 50% off sometimes so what I like to do and I'm gonna start with some of the material that I'll be using for the binding on this quilt now you probably recognize this material because this is the same material that I'm using on the border now my client sense enough material for me to do a border and a binding out of the colors all the same colors so here you go so again you can buy a yard of fabric on clearance say four three four even six dollars and you can get a lot of binding out of a yard of fabric I mean it's it's really really easy to do it okay so the first thing you want to do is lay out your fabric nice and neat now I earn this fabric prior to laying it out so it's nice and smooth and flat and I've got my ruler here this ruler here is six inches wide by 24 inches long so what I'm gonna do is first I'm going to start off by smoothing out this edge over here and I'm just lining up my ruler I went ahead and line my fabric up here on one of the lines so now I'm gonna go ahead and chop off it's about a quarter of an inch I'm gonna chop off just so I know I'm working with a smooth edge there okay so now I do my binding at two inches but you can do it 2 inches 2 and a quarter two and a half however wide you want your binding I like doing mine at two inches though so now I'm going to cut at two inch intervals lining it up right okay so there's one strip now I'm gonna scoot my ruler over another two inches and I'll cut another strip and I'm going to do this I think I'm going to cut probably about four strips I think ought to be sufficient that's two there you go me one more they're alright looks like it didn't make it through all the way on this one there you go alright so now I can move this fabric aside now I'm left with this so first before I move the bottom half I'm gonna go ahead and cut off my selvage down here so let's see I'm gonna cut off probably about an inch or so up and I'm just gonna cut through all four of them all at the same time and that's garbage there alright so now I'm going to actually cut this into smaller strips now my border strips are 12 inches long by 3 inches wide so because I'm using the same colors for my binding that I used in my border I want them to be different lengths so that none of the seam lines potentially end up meeting up together so I decided to go ahead and do my binding strips at 7 inches finished so I need to cut them at 7 and a half inches right now so I'm gonna go ahead and measure out 7 and a half inches so I'm lining up my ruler and I'm gonna cut again through all four of them all at the same time here you go okay now I need to do another seven and a half go cut through off for again there you go okay so there's that and now I'm left with these pieces now they're not long enough for me to be able to cut off the fold so I'm going to do is I'm going to open them up I'm going to lay them down on my mat I'm just gonna stack them on top of each other make sure they're nice and stacked neatly this way I can get some nice clean cuts there you go alright so now measure seven and a half so they move that out of the way right here go and go right through it there you go so this is extra left over so now I've got this now I just need to stack all of these up and then I'll be done cutting my blue strips then I'll do this for the rest of my colors so I still have my yellow purple and gray colors to do so there you just stack them all up and then once you get everything cut and ready to go then we can actually start piecing them together so I'm gonna finish stacking these up and I'm gonna go ahead and cut all the rest of my colors and then we can go ahead and move on to the next step okay so I finished cutting all of my strips from all four of my colors so now we're going to start piecing them together now there are a couple of different ways that you can piece your binding and I'm gonna show that to you guys now before we start sewing and I'm going to use a couple of scraps here all right I can get them separated there okay so now there's let me zoom in a little bit actually so you guys can see okay so now one way that you can piece your binding is by sewing the seam straight across like this and a lot of people do it this way and that's fine it looks really good but there's another way that you can do it too and it's it's similar to mitering - if you've ever heard of mitered corners it's kind of the way that you sew the corners of your quilt but the way that goes is it'll be trying to think how I can show you guys so it would be folded down like that and then the blue would be like that and that's how it would look this is how you would sew it together I mean not by folding it under obviously but that's another way to do it so I'm going to show you guys how to do both in case you've never done either I'll show you guys how to do both so now to do the mitered borders what you can do is you can do it kind of two different ways you can do it by lining your two pieces of binding up perfectly square like that or you can off-center them a little bit like that I personally prefer to off-center it but you can do it either way honestly both ways will give you a good nice looking miter so then what you want to do is you're gonna draw a line from this corner down to this corner where the two fabrics meet so and the pen that I'm using I'm using my purple pen this this side is disappearing ink the blue side is Mark begone and this one will disappear with water only whereas the disappearing ink disappears with air or water so I'm just gonna draw all that line right there here you go I'm doing it kind of thick because this stuff tends to start disappearing pretty quickly so there's our line so now you can hold it like this you can pin it I've got some wonder clips that I can years yeah alright so I got my little wonder Clips here slide it under there there and over here like that there you go so I'll move that to the sewing machine and then the other way you can do it like I said is just with the straight seam and that is just you take your two fabrics and you lay them pretty sides together and I didn't mention that with this one but you want your fabrics to be pretty sides touching so you want the faces to be touching each other there so with this one you just lay it pretty sides together and then you would just do your normal quarter inch seam right here so let's go ahead and move to the sewing machine and I'll show that to you guys okay so I'll do the straight one first since that's relatively easy I don't have to remove any clips so like I said you just go a quarter of an inch shariq there all right so now I'll go ahead and do this one at the same time and you just want to sew right on your little line right there now what you want to do is once you get all of your bindings sewn together then you'll use your iron and press them open I'm just gonna finger press for right now there so for the first I know for the first couple if you're going to do them at an angle I recommend not cutting off your excess material until you turn it over give it a nice finger press to make sure that everything aligned up because it's easy to get it not lined up and then you're gonna have to redo it so let me bring these over here so that you guys can get a good look there we go alright so again this one here is just the straight seam and it's a little blurry but because the colors are so contrasting you can really see it so this is what it would look like so once we finish putting all of our binding together what you would end up doing is you would iron it press it straight down the center and this is what your actual binding strip would look like see so that's a nice little seam right there and then here's this one okay and I like the way this one looks it just kind of gives it that extra little almost like complicated look you know what I mean and it's really not much more complicated than this one see and so once you know that it's lined up once you know that your top down here or up there and your bottom down here is good to go then you grab a pair of scissors and you just cut off put about a quarter of an inch here you go and you can do it with a rotary cutter too you could lay them all down and go through a couple of them all at the same time and then like I said once you get it all done you just press it open with your iron and then you'll have that nice little gathering and fold it cuz again this is what you'll do with your binding once it's all completed you'll end up folding it and then that's what your binding strip will actually look like on the coil so it's really nice it kind of just adds that little extra bit of detail to it you know what I mean and because the seam is off-center versus this one once you sew this or iron it you're going to have all of those layers of fabric to show through when you're putting your binding on so you've got four five six layers of fabric that you're gonna have to go through because you can't press the seam I mean you could cut it and then press it opposite so that you could nest your seams but that's an awful lot of work so when you're sewing your binding on you're gonna have to go through six layers of fabric by having a seam like this versus this one we're only gonna have to go through four layers of fabric so it's two less layers to go through so the kind of seams that I'm gonna be doing is I'm gonna be using this on my binding instead of the straight seam just because like I said it adds a little bit of detail to it so I'm gonna go ahead and start piecing some of these together now I don't draw lines on all of mine but if you're first starting out if this is your first time doing it I definitely recommend you draw your line so that you can make sure it stays pretty accurate so I'm going to go ahead and put my binding in the order that I want them yeah all right make sure you guys can still see yep okay now usually like I said I usually do my binding em in solid black and because it's solid black they're long strips so instead of cutting my binding into sections like this I'll leave them along I cut off the salvages and then that's it so you have about 40 inches worth of fabric that you can just add one right after the other and you can get all the binding that you need relatively quickly but because these are so much shorter it does take a little bit longer to do it and because they're so short I can't pull this side up and add another strip on to it because the angle wouldn't be right but when they're longer you can just change this so you could do this pull up the very end of your strip which I said is 40 inches away lay it here lay your next one on you don't even have to take it out from under the presser foot or anything but because these are so short I have to or I could sew two of them at a time which is what I'll show you guys here so I'm going to take the same colors and I'm going to sew a second strip and then what I can do is once these get you know a good length I can just show them together [Applause] so now cut off this back one and add my next color strip to it like I said if this is your first time I definitely recommend the either using pins or drawing your lines so that you make sure you get a nice good once you get the hang of it you be able to do it like I'm doing see I hope you guys can see but I didn't draw my line and it's still a very nice seam right there so and then this is what I'll keep doing till I have enough binding to go all the way around my quilt plus you want like a foot extra just so that you can make sure you have enough to join your two ends of your binding at the very end I did the math and I think I need about 250 inches of continuous binding so I can make it all the way around my quilt but you know obviously before I start sewing it on I'll definitely start I'll lay it down on the actual quilt itself just to make sure that I'm gonna make it and then I can add more shirts if I need to so like I said that's pretty much it so I'm gonna keep doing this until I get enough binding together and then once I have it all together then we go ahead and show you guys the next step which would be to iron it cut off all these little dog ears iron it nice and flat and then actually iron it in half so yeah all right okay so I've got all of my binding put together and now I'm ready to move on to the next step which is actually ironing all of the seams down in one direction so for that now usually when I do my binding I set my seams first but again that's where my binding is like each strip right here is 40 inches long so I don't have a seam you know every few inches since these are so close and there's so many seams I'm not gonna bother setting my seam first what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna iron on the backside and just flatten them out instead so we'll go ahead and start that I've started a few over here already I have my iron set to cotton and I do have steam on so what I'm doing is I'm just laying it down face down onto the ironing board and I'm pushing my iron right against that seam and then going on to the next one and I'm just letting it sit for a little bit so the steam can get on there a little part of it came back hmm and then I'm just pulling it down doing the same thing here there you go and you'll just do this for your whole binding strip and then at the end already I've already done everything else so I'm at the end there perfect so here is what it looks like on the front very nice alright so now we can move on to the next step okay so for that I'm gonna zoom out and I'm going to move the camera so you guys can see actually I'll put it behind I always find that when the Sun is behind me you're able to see it better there we go alright so now for this I like to use the length of the ironing board so that I have all of this space that I can iron now I'm just pulling my binding over here to be on this side of the ironing board got all of this there you go alright so now I'm just gonna let it pile up on the floor down here at the end of the ironing board alright so we've got this entire length of ironing board that we'll be able to iron and fold our binding in half and then actually iron it that way and that's what we'll do right now make sure you guys can see everything that's good okay alright so what you want to do is usually what I like to do is I like running my iron down the length of the binding first so I can heat it up and I'm not doing it fast I'm just kind of doing it slow just so I can heat up the fabric I start folding it now you want to fold it so that it's ugly sides I guess you could say touching there you go so I do the first part of it and then I set my iron down and then I just start folding it and I'm slowly keeping my iron right on that binding so it's getting a nice connection and it's getting a good amount of steam there you go and then once you come to the end just let it sit for a second pick it up and then I start like right around here and I pull my binding up and then again you can iron it to heat up that material get it nice and pliable not that it's not already but you know what I mean mm-hmm and then put my iron right back on it and I start folding the rest of it and you're gonna do this throughout the entire length of your binding all the way to the end and this is pretty much it this is how you make your binding or how I make my binding now there are a couple of different ways that you can do it there's actually a tool it's called I think it's just called the binding tool and it's I don't have one but it's a little tiny piece of metal that you push your fabric in and it's just like a little tiny clip and you push your fabric in one way and it folds it for you like when you push it in through the back it's wide like this and then you pull it through and it folds the fabric as you pull it through so that when it comes out the end you have your iron here already and you just pull it out iron pull it out iron and you don't have to worry about like what I'm having to do which is fold it and make sure it's nice and even um and there is also there's there's another machine um I don't know what it's called but I've seen a couple of YouTube videos on it where it actually heats the binding up for you and it does the same thing it heats it up and then it actually folds it and presses it for you already so you don't even need an iron to use it it does everything for you right there but like I said I don't remember the name of it but I'm sure if you were to go on YouTube and search for you know how to make binding or homemade binding something like that I'm sure it'll pull it up I'm trying to think I almost want to say Jenny from Missouri star quilt has tried it before or maybe it was the crafty Gemini I don't remember but I know I've seen it on YouTube before but yes this is how I do my binding and like I said I think it's much more cost-effective to do it yourself than to buy the the pre-made binding strips um like I said earlier you can use any fabric you want to make your binding so you're really not limited to any kind of pattern or color or anything like that so that's why I really like doing this so yeah so this is pretty much it honestly I'll just keep doing this throughout the rest of my binding strip and then once I finish pressing it then it'll be time time to actually attach it to the quilt itself so yeah alright so I'm gonna finish up this and then we can move on to the next step in the completing of the quilt which will be actually sewing your binding onto the quill alright guys so we're just about ready to start putting our binding on but before we can do that we have to cut off this extra batting and backing fabric from all the sides of the quilt now I've already done the three sides this is the last slide that I have left to do so what I like to do is I like to lay the side that I'm working on down on a flat surface this way we can make sure that our quilt is laying nice and flat and I like smooth it out on the whole leg and then I also like to give the backing fabric just a little tug just to make sure it's not folded underneath or anything now this is also where I will go in and I'll trim off the little extra threads from when I sewed these seam lines so you just go in and snip those off good alright and then once it's nice and smooth then you can use you two pair of scissors or even a rotary cutter and just cut you want to cut flush along with your border or if you don't have a party you would cut flush along with your blocks so I'm going to start in this corner over here and I pretty much have my blade right against that border I'm not cutting into the border but I have it right against that border and I'm using this hand to keep the quelt in front of my scissors on the table so that it doesn't potentially pucker or get an even or anything like that and doing this you also get to get rid of all these little extra little threads from your border which I find quite annoying but there's nothing you can do to get away from that so now what I like to do is right now my border these strips here are each 12 inches so to keep it from flapping around I'm gonna put a pin right in the middle of each of these just so I don't have to worry about my batting getting pulled out or my backing fabric potentially getting folded under or anything like that one more all right so now I just have to move my quilt up a little bit so that I can continue trimming off the extra batting and when you're doing this just give a quick peek underneath to make sure your quilt hasn't folded on itself and that'll make sure that you don't accidentally cut into your quilt while you're cutting off the extra batting and backing fabric smooth out and again I'm just gonna give my backing fabric a little tug perfect cut off the extra threads I think I got that one already I don't see one we're almost to the end all right so we'll set that aside for now I'm gonna go ahead and put my safety pins in that one this one alright so now you're gonna do that to all the edges of your quilt and then once that's done then you can actually move on to the very last step which is attaching the binding to the quilt alright so I'm gonna go ahead and get my sewing machine set back up and then we can go ahead and do that okay so now we can start sewing or binding on so because I do all of my binding by Machine I start sewing my binding on the back I start sewing my binding on the back first this way when I start flipping it over and I sew it on the front I decide where my stitching is gonna go this way I know it'll look good versus if you sew it on the front first and then you fold it over and you saw it on the back you have no idea where your stitching is gonna end up on the front side of the quilt so I'm gonna start sewing right on the back first and what you want to do is you want to leave about a foot or so worth of binding loose up here so I'm actually going to start sewing I've got all of this binding here but I'm actually gonna start sewing right here and you want to do that this way when you come back all the way around your quilt you're able to join your binding your two pieces of binding together and make it a seamless transition so now the thread that I have in my machine I have white thread in my spool up top and in my bobbin because you're not going to see any of the stitching so I'm going to use white and I currently just have my regular quilting foot on or my regular it's the standard quarter-inch foot but you could put your walking foot on if you want or if you need to I'm not going to use right now though so let me go ahead and get this all lined up and you're just going to sew along the edge like normal you just want all of your layers to be lined up together and you're just going to sew down like you're doing a normal quarter inch seam and you want to make sure you do a locking stitch in the beginning so I'm going to start sewing I'm going to do a couple of stitches and I'm gonna back stitch all right you want to start somewhere kind of in the middle of one of your sides I'm towards the end I've got about probably about a foot and a half before I get to my first corner but if you start like right at a corner that's not a good idea because then you're going to try and do your micro corner and it's gonna be buried so but I started towards the bottom this way I could show you guys how I do my corners in case you've never done one before [Applause] so I'm coming up to my corner here I'm going to go ahead and take out my safety pin but I will put a little wonder clip and because I didn't mention it earlier I'm sewing my binding on these are my raw edges right here let me open that up this is my raw edge so this side here is my nice finished edge you want to start sewing your raw edge down first because what's going to happen is once you get this stitch down you're actually going to be flipping this around to the other side so your raw edges are going to be in case alright so we've come we're about three inches from the bottom or from the corner and what you're going to do is you're going to come about a quarter of an inch before the end of your quilt and then you're going to pivot and you're going to come off your quilt at a 45 degree angle and that's what's going to get you that nice mitered corner so right there so you're just gonna pick it up give it a little fern and you just want to turn it so that when you keep going forward your needle is going to come right off the corner of the fabric yeah and then you can actually pull this out and away that's what you're gonna do now you're actually going to bend your binding so that you can get the nice miter just what you want to do is you want to this is how the binding ones you want to fold it up this way and that's stitching right there is gonna keep it right where it needs to be hold it like this and it makes a nice continuous line between my backing fabric off into my binding here so you do that and then you're gonna fold it back down what you want to do is you want to line up this fold right here with the ends of your quilt so I hope you guys can see that see I'll show you guys one more time so this is how your binding is what you want to do is you want to fold it up and then just kind of hold it there with your fingers and you'll see if this is lined up then you're doing good so far so that's lined up so now you're just gonna keep your finger right here and then you're gonna pull the binding back down and you just want to fold it so that it has a nice fold on this side of the quilt okay so can you get that then let's not everything looks beautiful and once you get that then you're gonna put your quilt back under your needle tuck this threads in there and it's alright to have those feds hanging out like that they're going to be encased in the binding anyway so don't worry about that all right so now do a couple of stitches so that you can get readjusted and then you just wide your binding out the legs normals alright and then you just keep going down the side and your speed might be a little limited because the logos of the shirts are faced down on my extension table and the way those logos are they're kind of like a plastic rubbery material or you know what I mean and because of that they kind of grip onto my table surface here so you might be a little bit limited on just how fast you can go but um yeah I'm you know I don't really know of a way to alleviate that honestly [Applause] so I'm just gonna keep sewing around all the sides of Mike little just like how you saw I'm gonna do all of my corners the exact same way and if you've never done a mitered corner before there are tons of videos out there showing how to do it I learn how to do my corners by watching other people's YouTube videos so definitely check them out I recommend is some of the videos from the Missouri star quilt company Jenny Doan has all the tutorial videos out there and she's done a couple showing how to do mitered corners also check out the crafty Gemini she has a bunch of videos out there too showing how to do mitered corners um trying to think who else you could see Leah day it's Elly aah space da y she might have a video showing how to do mitered corners I know she does a lot of free motion quilting but I don't know if she has one out there showing that a few minor corners but definitely check her out anyways his because like I said she does the bunch of videos on free motion quilting which would come in handy so like I said I'm just gonna keep going down the side of this quilt here and then I'm gonna finish up the other three sides and what I'll do is when I get to the end I'll come back and show you guys how I join my two binding strips ok guys so I'm just about to come to the end of my binding we're finally both ends meet so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take a couple of more stitches and then I'm gonna go ahead and lock in or do a locking stitch so not going to go very far in just maybe about four inches or so that's about good all right so now I'm gonna go and do a walking stitch and I'm gonna cut my thread alright so here is this end and this is all my binding so I had I think I've had about actually three extra feet which is good I'd rather have too much than not enough so here's one end and here is the other end so I left probably about an eight inch gap in there and you want to leave yourself enough space so that you can actually join your two pieces of binding now there are a bunch of different ways to do this honestly um and really no one way is right or better than the other um so I'll just show you guys a couple of different ways that I've seen now one way is where you would just do a straight stitch so what you would do is you would figure out I'm gonna put my presser foot down and hold that but you would pull both ends of your binding kind of tight to figure out where they're gonna actually join so mine would join right here so what I could do is I could cut it about a quarter-inch where it's tight right here against the backing fabric and I know I'm not doing a good job of explaining it but I would cut it a quarter-inch up cut it straight across and then what you would do is you would open I'll do it right here so let's pretend this here is the cut that I just did and let's pretend this is the cut that I just did so once you cut it you haven't measured out you would open your two pieces of binding like this and then you would go ahead and sew a quarter inch seam right here and then your two pieces of binding would then be together and it's obviously it's difficult to do it because they're not actually sewn together but that's what they would look like and then it would just fold over like normal so your two pieces of binding would be you know like that but a lot better looking okay so that's one way and it would be a straight seam so instead of these these are not straight seams they're ass off at an angle if I was to do that I would have one straight seam here in my binding I don't want to do that so I'm not gonna be doing that one today now there is another one that you can do where you open this up what I would do is I would cut this right here and then I would actually fold over this yellow piece so that I have a nice finished edge right here and then obviously this purple piece wouldn't be here but it would be folded over so it would be yellow right there and it would be finished and then what I would do is I would insert this remaining piece of my binding you would just insert it like this and then you would cut it off maybe like an inch or two in inside of this yellow right here so you would put it inside like this and again this purple piece is in here so it would look a little bit like that obviously it's not perfect right now but you would insert it like that and then you would just finish stitching down right in here and then that's it you wouldn't have to go in and do any additional stitch to your anything because once you fold this over it's gonna be tight enough that you're not gonna be able to get anything in here um so that's another way and that's actually probably the way that I'll do it today and then the other option is and I don't know let's see the other option would be to continue the seams that I have here by laying them the way we did when we were joining them in the first place so you would lay it like this and then you would go ahead and you would so from this corner down to this corner cut off your extra and then the piece of binding would open back up and it would look just like these seams right here I mean you would just you would literally act like you're adding another strip to your binding to make it longer so you would just go like this stitch down here cut off the extra and then pop it open and it would look like this just like that and then you would just continue sewing down the edge so like I said I'm gonna go ahead and do the way the the one where you just insert in this part of your binding inside here and go like that so that's how I'm gonna do it today so but what you want to do first if you want to figure out where on this length do you want to do your join so I think I'm gonna do my join a little bit down here so I can get away from the seams so if I did it right about here I think that would be pretty good honestly and honestly I could just cut off this purple and do it right here at the yellow and then I wouldn't have to worry about it so let's go ahead and do that let me get my long scissors alright so I'm just gonna cut right along this stitch length here or this stitching that I did when I connected my two pieces of binding there you go so there's that okay so now what you want to do is you want to make sure you fold this under because if I did it like this this is a raw edge right here on my yellow it's gonna start fraying like this is going to having you know streamys and all sorts of craziness hanging off so to do that trying to make sure you guys can still see so all I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna fold this down and I might actually end up taking it over to the iron but for the purposes of this right now I'm just gonna finger press it and I did it's probably about maybe 3/8 of an inch press down it's give me a nice finger press I think and then you can test it and I got this big ol little ear hanging off which is fine it's gonna get wah actually I probably cut that off because it is pretty big but so we got that and then what you want to do is you just want kind of eyeball how long this strip needs to be so that you can put it inside so I'm just gonna go ahead and cut it right down right above this yellow I think cuz that'll be just long enough for me to get several inches in there but not quite long enough for me to end up running into my stitching here so go ahead and cut it I'm just gonna cut straight across there you go so this here is extra alright so then all you do so you just slide that right in and because we iron this earlier we've got this nice little pressing mark here and it'll just snuggle right in and you want to make sure that you're giving it a you know keeping it a little bit taut so that you don't end up having either not enough binding or too much so I'm just putting my finger in there to make sure it's tucked in all the way and then you see it's bunching up a little bit so all I have to do is pull it just a little bit make it nice and snug I'm going to go ahead and cut off this little extra ear all right so now the only thing here that kind of bothers me is where my my my colors are so it's got gray a little bit of purple and then yellow so that bothers me a little bit but um honestly I don't think anybody will notice because I did it towards one corner of the quilt it's not going to be very noticeable honestly so like I said I'm going to take this over to the iron and I'm gonna give it a little press and then I'm gonna come back and finish ironing or already finished sewing this right here down and then I'll show you guys what it looks like afterwards okay so we're all pressed and we're ready to go so now all you got to do is bring it back to your sewing machine I'm just going right over the stitching line that I did before and I'm going to go ahead and start off I'm going to do another locking stitch so I'll go ahead and remove my little clip that was holding everything down [Applause] you just want to make sure you get that little piece right under the presser foot and then you'll be able to just keep right on going everything else is nice and lined up [Applause] we're stitching so now I'm gonna go ahead and do another walk and sit and cut my thread there you go about these extra little Freddy's everywhere so that's it so that's how you join your two little pieces of binding see you like right now I can still get my finger in it a little bit but once we pull it around and let me show you on this side once we pull it around to the other side it'll be you're only gonna have a quarter of an inch there and it'll look just fine I mean outside of it being grey purple and yellow but it'll look very nice so we'll just fold over see hope you guys can see that so now what we're gonna do is now I'm gonna flip my quilt around and I'm gonna actually start showing you guys how to sew it down on the other side so let me go ahead and flip everything around okay so I've got the quilt all turned around and ready to start sewing the binding on to the front side of the first I went ahead and I changed out my threads so I went ahead and I put my clear thread back in for my spool up top so my stitching on the top of the binding up here will be clear and then I went ahead and I put black back in my bobbin because I don't want there to be white thread on the backing here so I would've had to put black back in all right so and I'm gonna start down towards one of the corners this way you guys can see how to go about doing the corner so what you want to do first is you just want to start by pulling the binding over just in one particular section and you can use pins if you want I personally don't I just like pulling it and then using my fingers to hold it in place so you just want to pull it and I went up a little bit so I'm not immediately starting on that scene so you just want to pull it over and you just want to kind of go off of where this white my in my case where my white thread is because you want to make sure your binding is going to cover that up so see I just pull over a couple inches at a time and I use my fingers to hold it in place so then what you do is once you get it pulled over where you want it and you don't have to pull it like you know a whole bunch like this honestly you just want enough to cover up that stitching line and ideally your needle is going to be going through the binding and right into that stitching line so that on the back side it'll be going essentially in the ditch between your binding and your backing fabric that's that's what's you're really aiming for or what I like to aim for so and realign that and it's always a little more difficult over the seam lines but over time you'll kind of get used to messing with those so I'm putting my binding or my presser foot right there on the edge of my binding now we're gonna go ahead and start I'm gonna start with a locking stitch so we'll take a couple of stitches back stitch there you go so now we can move our fingers there so now while that's nice and secured I'm just gonna go ahead and work my way down and pull over my binding for a couple inches down there we go and just hold that down and then there you go alright so like I said I started towards the edge or towards the bottom of one of the corners this way I could show you guys how to sew down the corners this can be a little bit of a slow process especially if you're trying to get your needle right in that same seed line can be a little bit slow that's why I'm not going you know pedal-to-the-metal here hmm taking my time okay so we're coming up to the corner so now what you can do is you can grab all of these little threads here and give them a snip kind of keep them out of your way kind of have like a nice little clean looking space there okay all right so now I'm gonna go a few I'm gonna think I'm gonna go like one more inch or two and then I'm gonna stop and show you guys what I like to do there you go okay so now there's a couple of different ways you can do the corner so now you could fold over this edge of the binding and you could come straight down like this and then fold up the bottom edge and you grab a clip here these little Clips really come in handy so you could fold that down and then fold up the bottom edge and what you want to do is you just kind of want to keep your finger right there and then fold up the bottom and what that does is it'll give you a nice little mitered corner right here so you can do it that way or you could fold up the bottom first now I had done this I tried this a little while back I think and I found it so much easier for me to get the presser foot over top of all of this Bowl if I do the bottom side first instead of the side first so I'm gonna go ahead and put one more clip here because I do have a seam right here one more right there push this one in just a little bit alright so I folded up the bottom side first okay so then you're gonna do the same thing with this side fold it right on over I'm just using my finger to settle everything down inside there so now we'll put another clip here there okay so now I mean obviously that popped back open but because I did the bottom side first my presser foot is already going to be on top right here so when I come here I'm going to place my needle in the down position right here I'm gonna pivot my quilt and just keep going and because like I said because they fold it in the bottom first I'm not gonna have to worry about trying to get my presser foot to stay to stay above the fabric if this side was on top and once you actually start sewing this you'll completely understand what I'm talking about and you'll see that doing it this way is so much easier because I didn't always used to do it this way one honey when I first started so I definitely love this way and I always do it this way now so go ahead and keep going down and as you get closer towards the end you just want to slow down just a bit keep your finger there there so now it's right under the presser foot take one more stitch there so now we'll pivot got my quilt sliding off the other side over there all right so we'll pivot put that foot back down and I'm just gonna slide my wonder clip down just a little bit so that I can get a couple of stitches in there so now my foot is sitting flush on the fabric and now I can take off my little Clips here there so now I just keep going just pull in up the binding get right on going and let me pull this over so I can show it to you guys so now we have enough but I can show you guys actually let me get the camera so I can show y'all close-up what it looks like now okay so here's the edge that we just finished sewing and again it's difficult to see the actual stitching because I use that clear thread but you can see it's maybe about an eighth of an inch into the binding right there and that's all that you need so here's the back see and you can just see my thread line right in that backing fabric and that's why I use the black thread in my bobbin instead of white because you would have been able to see that white thread like a lighthouse in the night you know what I mean I mean it would have been very obvious that it was there and this is where I started I think yeah a little bit actually it's just a thread but so that's what it looks like let me show you guys the corner so look at how nice that looks very nice here's the back look at that it's a beautiful corner very nice alright so that's I mean that's pretty much it honestly you just keep making your way all the way around the quilt and once you get back to over here where we started that's it you're done the whole thing is done so I'm gonna go ahead and keep sewing on my binding and it doesn't take very long honestly I mean sewing it to the front takes longer than sewing it to the back because I'm trying to get my needle right in that stitching line but you can see it's right in there which is perfect that's exactly what I want so I'm gonna keep finishing this up and then once I finish sewing my binding completely on I'll come back and show you guys the completed quilt alright everybody so I have completed the quilt all the binding is sewn on and I don't have video footage of it completed but I do have a couple of pictures so I'll go ahead and show that to you guys here at the end of the video but that's pretty much everything you need to know to get your quilt all put together from putting the sandwich together all the way through finishing the binding so yeah if you have any questions or comments definitely leave them in the comment section below I do answer all the questions that I get and I usually respond to comments also check me out on Facebook I do have a Facebook page if you've not already seen it it's facebook.com slash segovia quilts or you can just use the lengths I put in the description below what else I do have some of my quilts out there on Pinterest so I'm sure if you were to search in Pinterest to go view quilts they'll pull up I have a marine quilt that I did for my husband out there and several of the quilts that I've done for my clients so yeah definitely reach out to me if you have any questions or anything I'll do my best to answer them for you so yeah alright well I hope you guys enjoyed the video and until next time I will see you guys later you

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Length: 176min 3sec (10563 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 12 2016