How to Join Your Quilt Binding Ends

this is my method for finishing off the ends of your machine binding the binding that you're going to attach to your quilt by machine I saw this on an episode of simply quilts Alex Anderson was the hostess of that program from 1978 till 1989 is what I could find on Google they took it off the air permanently I believe in about 2009 so I watched a lot of reruns for many years so when you do Stitch your binding on you're going to want to leave a good this is a 14 inch ruler so there's 14 inches in between so you have room to manipulate your pure ah strips so you'll want to trim one side and I just trim about halfway just trim with the scissors you'll get a pretty straight cut and this binding is two and a quarter because we're stitching from the back and then we're going to roll it to the front and machine stitch it on the front now some people will do it a different way or if you're going to hand stitch down your binding you would stitch it to the front and then flip it to the back and then hand stitch so the width of this fabric is two and a quarter inches so what we'll need to do is you can pin this down here just hold it flat and then you'll take your other strip and you're going to overlap it and the amount of the overlap is the width of your fabric easy way to do it is just line that up see here's the end of my other strip so I lined it up with that and I actually kind of move it over just a touch maybe about an eighth of an inch so that it's actually less so I would be trimming this what would equal about two and 1/8 inches and snip that puppy right off there then you've got your two ends and we'll sell them at an angle so here they're like this and I know a lot of people get confused here I've seen them come out in really odd ways but it's just like when you're sewing your strips together just do like so and two pins will do it because you're going to sew on this angle from corner to corner so that you have that diagonal seam line so we're ready to go ahead and so our angle if you're more comfortable you can draw a line if not then just start at this corner and then go to that corner on my machine I've darkened this line here which is in line with where my needle will come down so we find our little edge there straighten that up just a touch at the corner there and see I'm keeping my corner here and line with a slider and now I can just shoot for that corner and I don't rotary cut it I just approximately cut at about a quarter inch as you can see it this is perfect and for this if you want to iron it take it to the ironing board and iron it go ahead or you can just use one of these I can't member what they're called wooden iron I think OOP one out of the way and then you're ready to finish your scene and that taking away that little eighth of an inch helps it to lay flatter if you cut it exact two and a quarter or two and a half or whatever the width of your binding is sometimes you'll get a little bubble in there but this way you can pull it taut and you can have a nice flat seam

Channel: Camille Ainsworth

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Keywords: Quilting, Quilt (Literature Subject), Quilt Binding, Demo, Do It Yourself (Hobby), DIY, Binding

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Length: 5min 21sec (321 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 24 2015