Joining the Ends of Binding with Bonnie Browning

well and so far our tip today so that well you can maybe pick up some tips that will help you in your quilting I'm going to show you how I end the seams when you finish up a binding and you know bonding I have to confess I bindings Mike my least favorite part of the filtering sport and so it comes to binding I might have not bound a quilt for a long time and so I'm always guilty of having to look this technique up and so it's so good that you're going to share it well and so let me show you how we do it just drop me me remember to do well yes and there are some things that you can do now I have already trimmed the bottom the the starting stop and I guess that's my stop part but what I want you to pay special attention to is how much room I left in between you have to have some room to work when you have to pick up these ends and so you can see I only showed about four inches on either side of this so there's about a foot yeah between I always get bound up with just three inches left okay so I trimmed the bottom one and I'm just gonna lay that slightly over the edge of my placemat here okay then what I did is I just snipped off a piece of my binding off of my long tail and this is our measuring stick so I'm gonna take my binding now and I'm gonna lay one over the top of the other and now I have to have the width of that binding I'll be able to make it come out right so now and I will just warn you you will do this once and that is you want to make sure you don't cut on this all because if you do you have to rip it back in piece in some binding because it'll be too short so make sure you come to the left and so I'm just gonna trim this off right here okay now now the magic happens all right and I do this every time because you know we don't finish so many quilts that we do this every day no and so I don't I do this every every single time that I put a binding on but I'm going to open this up and you know we have to have right sides together and you want to make sure you don't twist them so I always take in fold my 45-degree angle that will be my seam line and I'm just gonna do a little finger pressing right there okay now this is the secret is you take your other piece of binding and you match up that fold of your binding and I'm gonna lay it right on top okay okay of my folded piece and now I'm gonna pick it up oh look at you go and so now you can see I always say it has to look like an a you've got a leg of a knee and a leg of an A and our seam is going to be the cross on the a that's if you remember if you just remember that but if you're doing this for the first time I'm gonna put a pin in just to hold this together all right now I'm gonna pin it I didn't pin that very well get it down here where I'm not pulling on it now I'm gonna put a couple pins in on the diagonal line where I would be sewing okay and so we're just gonna sew this with a pin smart like a practice run that's right that's right because I don't like on sewing this part very much okay so now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to just take that and fold it like it would be sewn on there Oh wonderful and so you see what happens now it fits perfectly on the edge of your quilt now once I've done this I would go back and sew that seam and then I would press these seams open okay and once you do that you lay it in here and you come back and start up here and go right down and your binding is all fun that's wonderful thank you so remember the a a fold fold the corner of a line a line on the right pick it up by the corner you're gonna sew across the a remember that easy you won't have to look it up every time thank you so much

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Length: 4min 47sec (287 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 11 2018