ULTIMATE QUILT VIDEO - Make a Quilt from beginning to end. ALL the details.

[Music] hey there it's dana from madeeveryday.com and let me ask you a question have you ever wanted to make a quilt before but you feel completely overwhelmed with the amount of information with the terms the rules the rulers i totally feel you i've been there before it can feel a little overwhelming so today you and i are gonna break it all down together we're gonna make a quilt from the very beginning through all the details to the very end in one big video and then you can pause it where you need to so let's do it making a quilt is something i find really relaxing and also really fun and the process is different for each person but what i love is that it's something i can work on bits at a time i can start my project i can be interrupted by people i can put it aside for two weeks and come back to it it's just like this great side project that's always there waiting for me now we talked about how it can feel a little overwhelming at first so we're gonna keep it simple we are going to make a striped quilt or as i like to call it a stripy quilt i just really love stripes this is a free pattern you can find on my website go to madeeryday.com you can download it you can read through it but we're going to walk through all the steps together in this video and we are going to make a baby size quilt which is really manageable and we're going to use some of my own fabrics you need a cutting mat a ruler and a rotary cutter and this is kind of a good general size it's 18 by 24 inches you can get them smaller larger for my ruler mine is three inches wide they come five inches wide they come in triangles octagons so many different sizes but this is kind of a good general size and you can see it fits the length of my cutting mat for my rotary cutter this is 45 millimeter rotary cutter and how it works as you pull this down you can see the sharp blade and when you're done you can close it up for safety purposes and then you'll put your fabric under here you press down hard cut along the edge away from you and it gives you really nice precise cuts grab your quilt pattern this is the stripy quilt and pillow sham it's so fun to make the pillow sham and you don't need to print the whole thing just print this cutting chart that's on page four and it tells us exactly what we need to cut for each part of the quilt we have colorful stripes which are each going to be a different fabric or you can make yours the same and then we have the background stripes and in quilting patterns the background fabric just refers to the fabric that you see continued throughout whether it's white black patterned but just something that is kind of a repeating fabric so if we look here we are going to make a baby size but you can make all the way up to a king size and it says that we need to cut six we're going to do six different fabrics and for the background stripes we need to cut seven and then it tells us that we need to cut it four and a quarter inches by width of fabric wof that just means the entire width of the fabric from selvage to salvage when it's on the bolt and that's a common term that you see in patterns so let's cut our fabrics should you pre-wash your fabrics before you make a quilt well that is personal preference but i will say that most quilters probably do not pre-wash their fabrics or their batting for a couple reasons first it's so much easier to cut through fabric that's fresh off the bolt with less wrinkles and then you also want to think about your quilt in its final stage when it's all done and when you wash it for the first time you want all those layers the fabric the batting and the thread to all shrink up together at the same rate and when you do that you get this really fun crinkly look i have my fabric here and you can see it's folded in half so that it is the width of the fabric and if you were making a larger size quilt you're going to cut strips sew them together and then you'll have one long continuous strip but for the baby sides we just need to do width of the fabric so i'm going to fold mine in half again so that it's four layers there and you always want to start with a clean edge mine is pretty clean but just to make sure that it's super straight so i'm going to line it up there with one of my markings and line up my ruler and press hard over here so that nothing slips underneath and cut off that edge right there whoops there we go i didn't press hard enough okay so then i want to do four and a quarter inches so you can pull this over to the front of your cutting mat or you can just go here and count four and a quarter inches so i am going to cut go one two three four and a quarter and line up my ruler right there you know i always count with my finger like that almost every time because guarantee i do the math wrong if i don't so there we go we have our first strip now i'm going to cut the rest of my strips i have some cute fabrics right here from my butterscotch and squeeze collection and then for the background fabric i think i'm going to do these hot dogs so i am going to cut my fabric i have all of my stripes cut i have my colorful stripes and my background stripes and then you can see according to the pattern we're just going to alternate sewing these together so we're actually going to start with a background stripe as the first thing and then comes our first color colorful stripe so we're going to sew these with right sides together so just like this and i'm not going to pin if you feel like you need a pin then go for it but i feel comfortable just going like this and we're going to sew with a quarter inch seam allowance all the way down a quarter inch is a very common probably what most quilting requires is a quarter inch okay let's go to our sewing machine on my baby lock i'm using a quarter inch foot which means that the edge of my presser foot is a quarter inch from the needle here that gives me a quarter inch seam allowance if your machine doesn't come with one no big deal you can use your standard presser foot which you typically see me use and what you would want to do is just make sure that your needle position is over enough that the edge of your presser foot is a quarter inch and if you're not sure if it is a quarter inch just put your needle down use a little ruler and you can measure and see that that's exactly a quarter of an inch okay i have my fabric here again i have right sides together there we go my first two stripes and we are just going to sew right down i love this project because you just sew really long straight lines and if that's something that you struggle with then this is a great project okay keep pausing just to make sure that your fabric is aligned exactly together underneath you don't want to get off on that quilting is all about being very precise and the more precise you are with your cutting and your sewing every step of the way the more well the better your cool is going to turn out but don't stress over it there's always ways to kind of budget and make it work but just you know do your best okay we're getting to the end here then you could press this right now or you can press it at the end it's just kind of personal preference i actually prefer to press in between but for purposes of this moment i'm just going to go ahead and sew my next one so i'm going to take my next stripe which is the background stripe and again right sides together and here we go background stripe number two sew all the way down now we're just going to keep alternating whatever order you have placed your colorful stripes in with your background [Music] stripes [Music] i'm done sewing all the stripes and now we get to press the quilt and like i said you could press it in between each stripe or at the end i'm using a wool pressing mat which works really great i feel like it gives a nice clean crisp press and then there are two schools of thought with two schools of thought with pressing you can press your seams open which means you know pulling them both open and pressing like that with your iron like that all the way down or you could press them to the side and typically if you press to the side you want to press to the darker side of the fabric so that if you were to press to the lighter side you might see that seam underneath this light fabric so i am going to press mine to the side and you want to make sure you don't like tug the fabric but make sure that nothing is folded underneath there so i'm going to go like this and if you like to use steam you could use steam you could use a little bit of water i'm just pressing mine just like that and on this side i'm going to press this one to the other side so when you look at the back of this quilt it's going to look like some of your stripes are a little skinnier than the other but it's just because the way that you have pressed your seams so okay i'm going to press this whole quilt and you know that's just part of the process of quilting is the pressing and some people really love this stuff they find it really soothing and relaxing but if you don't love this step just you know power through it'll make your quilt look really awesome i'm pressing the last part right here and then i'm gonna flip it over and press the other side just so that everything oh look how pretty that looks i mean it's like a quilt already okay and then we get to talk about our backing fabric our binding fabric and making the quilt sandwich quick anatomy of a quilt lesson first you have the quilt top which is what we have pieced together by sewing all these stripes together then in the middle you have a layer of batting and that just gives extra warmth to your quilt and adds a little bit more weight then you have the backing fabric or the back of your quilt and this can be made from one giant piece of fabric or by piecing together multiple fabrics and then around the edge you have this really cute binding and that just encloses all those raw edges and adds a really fun pop of color so now we're going to pick out the backing and the binding and it's one of my favorite steps let's talk about batting this goes in the middle of your quilt and you have a few options most quilters probably use a low profile natural cotton batting such as this you can buy it by the yard from the roll or in pre-cut packages at most fabric shops i typically buy a lot of yards at once so i ask if i can keep the roll for easy storage it comes in cream color and in white another option is to use a synthetic batting which comes in different thicknesses or loft and when you use a high loft batting and you do all those quilting stitches on top it gives your quilt a really fun puffy look so try out some different options every quilt is different and see what you like before i begin a quilt i usually have a general idea what fabric i want to use for the back but it's not until i see the finished quilt top that i really feel like i can make that call so i like to pull a few fabrics out and hold it next to the quilt top one idea is that this is from my butterscotch collection you could use a fabric that's already in the quilt for your backing and you have to remember that this is going to be on the back so i hold it like this and then you can flip it over and see how does it look when i turn the quilt over so that is a really fun idea but i'm also really loving these oranges from squeeze i just think that is a big fun bold print and i like how it ties into the orange colors and the blacks and i think pink and orange is adorable together but then i also really love this black but i think that this pink would be adorable as a binding with the oranges so to check out the binding i like to hold the quilt just right at the edge so that i can see how does it look to have that tiny little pop of color right there and i think that's what i'm going to do one more thing we want to think about in this step is what kind of quilting do we want to do on top and you're probably thinking well we did just quilt but what we've done is we've pieced together our quilt top quilting is actually when you sew all these fun decorative designs on top of your quilt to hold the layers together and this can be done with thread it can be done with yarn it can be done with hand stitching embroidery floss there's tons of different options so you want to think about do i want a thread color like i've done here this white that just kind of blends in with the white as any stripes or do i want a fun pop of color thread and more of a statement piece and an interesting design so i like to pull a few thread colors out and see how they look on my quilt and i have a few right here i think this purple is a little too purple so i am a big fan of pink i'm gonna go with pink and then i hold it down and i see okay if i did some stripes and i maybe i'll pull through a few strands out here how does that look and then i can turn it the other way what if i did like a perpendicular grid here i can see on the brown how that pink shows up really nice but what if i did diagonal stripes which is kind of what i'm leaning towards maybe two inch wide stripes and maybe i turn it into a grid like that other quilt i just showed you so i think that that is what i'm going to do so we're going to square up our quilt by trimming off the edges and then we're ready to put together our quilt sandwich trim off the sides of your quilt so you trim off all those selvedge edges and so we have nice long straight clean lines this is called squaring up the quilt and i think it's helpful to do on the floor so i can use the grout lines of my tile or a wooden floor to really help keep me in a long straight line as i cut we should only have to trim the sides on this particular quilt since the top and bottom of our quilt is one big long stripe but if you were making a more intricate quilt design that had a bunch of piecing at the top and bottom you would want to square up all four sides of your quilt then make sure your quilt top is nice and pressed and that there are no lingering threads on the back that might get sandwiched in your final finished quilt to make the cool sandwich start by laying your backing fabric on the floor with the fabric facing down smooth everything out and tape it securely with painter's tape you want the backing and the batting to be about eight inches larger than the quilt top this is so you have a little bit of wiggle room as you do those quilting stitches on top so that hopefully nothing shifts if you're making a size larger than a baby quilt you will probably need to piece together some larger pieces of fabric to get a wide enough backing for your quilt this can be done with the same fabrics or you could use multiple fabrics or you could get creative and use a bed sheet there are lots of options but with the baby quilt we're going to fudge that size a little bit and cut our fabric 44 inches wide by 52 inches since we only want to use the width of the fabric or one big piece of fabric for our baby quilt now that we have our backing secured on the ground we can lay our batting on top of that and if you haven't cut it already you can just trim it down to the same size as the backing secure the batting as well with painters tape all the way around and finally we're ready to place our quilt top on top of the batting this step is called basting and it's meant to hold all those layers together as we do those fancy quilt stitches so that nothing shifts as we're going there are multiple ways you can do this you can use safety pins you can do long hand stitches you could use spray base it will just take some time for you to figure out which method you prefer i'm going to show you the safety pin method but first let's think one more time about those decorative stitches we want to do on top now if you want to do something simple that you can kind of eyeball maybe some straight lines that you use your presser foot or the edge of your quilt stripes to help guide you you may not need to draw anything on top but i think i want to do that diagonal grid i was showing you so i'm going to take my quilting ruler and my fabric marker and draw two inch wide lines shifting my ruler down as i go since i don't have a ginormous ruler and i'm going to draw them one direction and then shift and go diagonally the other direction when you're using a fabric marker you always want to test first and make sure that it will not leave a line behind most fabric markers will erase with time or heat or water so always do a test first and then we're ready to put our safety pins on i'm done marking my lines in both directions for the quilting in the next step and now we are ready to attach our safety pins which i love to keep in this cute little holder bin i'm using these safety pins that are bent which makes it really easy to get through all the layers of our quilt sandwich and because we secured everything really nicely down here with our tape it's holding all of our layers in place during this step which is very helpful you want to place your pins about a fist width or hand width apart and mostly you just want to be liberal with your opinion the more you use the more it is going to hold all of your layers in place as we quilt in the next step and since i know exactly where i'm going to quilt my lines i'm going to avoid placing a pin on any of those quilt markings that way i don't have to remove the safety pins as i'm sewing sometimes you do and that's totally fine but this will just make the process a little bit easier okay i am going to keep basting or pinning this entire quilt and then we are ready to go back to our sewing machine and do our quilting lines i'm all done pinning the quilt sandwich you can see we have the backing here we've got the batting in the middle and we've got our quilt top and all these safety pins holding all the layers together as we get ready to do our quilt lines and another option for you with quilting is that you could send your quilt out to what's called a long arm quilter and that's just an experienced quilter who has a long arm quilting machine they put your quilt on rollers and they can do really intricate quilting designs on top for you that's something that you pay for and that's a cool option also but i want to show you that you can do the quilting right at home on your home sewing machine i'm going to do mine on my baby lock brilliant i have pink thread in the top of my machine and i'm using pink in the bobbin as well and you want to think about that do you want to use the same color on the top and bottom or different colors and then i am going to come over here and use my automatic threader i love that on my baby lock the last thing i'm going to do is increase my stitch length to a four so i get a really nice long stitch i'm going to start in the middle of my quilt and do my stitch lines working my way out if you started on the ends and worked your way to the middle you might end up with some bunching here so because i marked those lines i can just start sewing right on top and i'm trying to do my best to stay right on top of that line and you'll notice i did not do a forward and back stitch that's kind of with quilting a little bit personal preference and as i'm going since i am not using a walking foot which is something we'll have to talk about in another video i'm just using my standard presser foot i changed back from my quarter inch foot and i'm using both my hands to really help i'm not pushing well i guess i'm pushing a little bit helping the fabric get through so that all these layers nothing's getting stuck underneath and it's just going through evenly through my sewing machine you'll also notice that i have this side of my quilt rolled up and that really helps if whoops i gotta take one out that really helps if you're using doing a larger quilt especially this baby size is a little more manageable under my machine but when i've done a twin size one i keep it rolled on both sides so that i can kind of hold it and so i don't have as much bunched up fabric under my machine i said i wasn't gonna have to remove as much i guess i didn't do a very good job i got close to the close to the lines there okay so when i get to the end i'm gonna come back and go right up to the top again you want to go the same direction each time at least that's what i have been taught so that you don't end up with uneven pulling of your fabric as well but you know what i've also done it where i've gone one way and then switched and gone the other way so i guess try it out and do what you'd like okay now we're going to the second line and you can see there i was kind of bunching up a little i just want to kind of try to smooth that out with my hands as i go then i'm gonna work my way all the way out to this side and we're gonna come back and work our way all the way this way and we're gonna end up with a bunch of fabric here but that is just part of the fun and something we will manage and then we're gonna go and do the other direction as well i'm done quilting my quilt i took off all the safety pins i pressed all those lines that i marked earlier so the lines would disappear kind of like magic and then i squared up the quilt again on the floor trimming off all the excess batting and backing fabric from the edges and i love how it's looking on the front and on the back okay we just have one step left we are going to make a cute little binding to go all the way around the edge [Music] the first time i made a quilt binding i was a little bewildered because i didn't know what i was doing i thought it was going to be just like making bias tape which you know i love and in many ways it is but it's actually even a little bit easier bias tape is a trend that's used to bind around clothing and other projects and it's made by cutting strips of fabric on the bias or the 45 degree angle of the grain line of the fabric and what that does is it gives it a little bit of give or subtle stretch to it so it's easy to go around the curves of a neckline of a shirt or an armhole something like that i have a detailed video for it here on my channel a quilt binding however is cut with strips that are going along the grain line which means it does not have as much give to it which is perfectly fine since we're going to sew it to our quilt which has really straight edges and when we take our quilt right here you can see what we're going to do is we are going to sew it right here then it's going to fold over to the back and go around the back and it's going to bind this little edge for us so we're going to cut straight strips of fabric let me open this up so you can see we're going to sew them all together and then we're going to press the whole thing in half now how wide should you cut the strip well there are two schools of thought some people cut them two and a quarter inches wide some cut two and a half inches wide i personally like the two and a half inches i just think it gives a little bit more wiggle room and you will figure that out as you're going but it gives you more space after this is sewn to fold over and to fully enclose the stitch line that's going to be visible on your quilt so i'm going to cut all my strips two and a half inches now how many strips do i need to cut well let's do a little math measure around your quilt i know that mine is 42 inches on one side plus 42 inches and then it's 48 inches on the other two sides that gives me 180 inches and then we want to cut our strips the width of the fabric which is let's say 41 inches so i'm going to divide this number by 41. it's telling me i needed 4.4 strips well let's round that up to 5. and if you were making one and it said 4.9 i would round that up to six you want to have a little bit of wiggle room because we are going to sew these strips together with bias seams and now that i've totally confused you don't worry we'll walk through it together let's cut our strips of fabric the nice thing about cutting the quilt binding on the grain line is that it doesn't require very much fabric you can get a whole quilt binding by about a half yard of fabric okay let's sew these together now probably what your brain is going to tell you is that you want to take them with right sides together and sew them with a seam so that when it opens up it's like that and that is totally an option and then you would press it in half and you have your really long quilt binding but a better option is to sew it with a bias seam now if i go back to my bias tape here not to confuse you but if we look at our seam right here this was sewn with a bias seam meaning that it was sewn on a diagonal like that and what that does is that when we fold it all back up the seam is distributed throughout this little area part of my seam is here and part is here and that just makes it less bulky when it's going around our project so a better option is to take one of your strips like this lay the other strip perpendicular with it and i didn't cut off my selvedges you don't have to do that either or you could and you want to overlap them at least by a quarter inch hanging off the edge there and then we're going to sew from this little corner to that corner a diagonal bias seam and when we're done and we open it up you can see that it's going to make one long strip for us like that with this distributed seam right there so let's go to our machine i'm going to say sew all five of my strips together and then we're gonna press the whole thing in half we have our first two pieces here and we're going to start right at this little notch here and sew down to this one you could draw a line if you need to but it's a pretty short distance you can pretty much eyeball it i did a little back stitch and then i'm going to sew right down and then you can see when i open this up we have this nice clean bias seam and when we're done sewing all of our strips we're going to trim off all this excess bulk right here so we're going to grab our next strip and place it again and if you had a repeating design say there was a giant orange right here and you wanted to make sure that these two match up well well you can shift these around you could sew this all the way up here just so that you get your design to repeat you just want to make sure that it's overhanging at least a quarter of an inch and that you sew in between those two spots so let's go back and do this one okay i'm going to finish sewing all my strips we're going to trim off the bulk and press it all in half our binding is all done and pressed and ready to attach to our quilt but first we need to decide do we want to machine bind our quilt or hand bind our quilt let me show you the difference traditional quilters probably prefer to hand bind their quilt just so that you get a hidden binding without any stitch marks all the way around then we start by sewing it to the front of the quilt first then we flip the binding around to the back and this part is done with a needle and thread hand sewing it so that all those little stitches are hidden inside the binding the other option is to machine bind your quilt when you do that you start by sewing it instead of to the front first you start by sewing it to the back first then you flip it over to the front and you sew it in place with your machine this method is definitely faster but you do see those stitch marks on top so you'll just have to decide for yourself try out the hand binding first and see if you like that personally i love this step i love sitting with my quilt at the end outside or in front of a great movie or in the car and just slowly methodically stitching it all in place i find it really relaxing some people however cannot wait to be done and just want to get that thing bound and move on to the next thing so you'll have to try out both methods and see which one you like i'm going to hand bind my quilt so i'm starting on the front of my quilt if you are going to machine bind you'd want to start this step on the back of your quilt take your binding with the raw edges and align that with the raw edge of the quilt and i'm starting in the middle side of my quilt you can start anywhere but that's just where i like to start and you want to leave about a 10 inch tail just enough that when you get all the way around we have wiggle room to attach these two ends together and we are not going to pin anything we're just going to go straight to our machine we're going to set with a quarter inch seam allowance all the way around and i'll show you what to do when we get to the corners remember that i'm leaving this tail here and i have my quarter inch foot back on you could use your standard foot just make sure you're using a quarter inch seam allowance and we're just going to start sewing i'm going to align the edge of my presser foot with the edge of my fabric here just keep checking periodically that you are still aligned with your binding and your fabric as you're going you can see this part of it goes really fast so this is why people like doing both sides of their binding with their machine if you want to be done then that's a great option okay as i'm getting to the corner here i want to show you this okay let me make sure i'm still there okay okay i want to stop a quarter inch from the end here so i'm going to go a little bit slower and i'm kind of watching i kind of know where that's maybe that's about a quarter inch did a little back stitch i'm going to cut my threads and take this off now i will show you you're probably thinking why didn't you just sew to the end what's the big difference then i'm going to pivot my quilt like this if and you're going to fold this up now if i had sewn all the way to the end when i fold my binding up it would make my binding off the edge of my quilt a little bit when i come back so by stopping a quarter inch like that it gives us a little bit extra room so that when we come back down the other side it's aligned well so you're going to fold this up you want to make a 45 degree angle with your binding like that and just kind of hold it like that and then you're going to come back down again with your binding there we go and just like that so i know that looks a little confusing the first time you do it it will all make sense so here let me show you again i put this at a 45 degree angle so it's cutting a corner cutting a diagonal in my corner then i align it and fold it back down so there's a little fold right there at the top and everything is all aligned on this side and then we're going to start up here with a quarter inch seam allowance again and go right back down the next side i'm almost back to my starting point so i don't want to go all the way to the point i want to leave here is my tail where i started i want to leave a little bit of space and that's probably good i'm going to stop right there come off my machine and we're going to go back to the cutting table so i can show you how we're going to attach these two ends we have the two ends of our binding here and we want to sew these together the same way we did with our other strips with that bias seam but how do we know where to cut these so that everything matches up perfectly well i'm going to show you a little trick however wide we made our binding and if you remember we cut our strips two and a half inches wide if you had cut yours two and a quarter you would use that measurement so we're gonna go with two and a half inches and that is how much we are going to overlap these two ends so i'm just going to trim this off a little bit and this space i left was about 15 inches you just want some room so that we can you know sew these two ends together without it being awkward okay i'm laying those right on top of each other you can see like that here's the end of my one strip i'm gonna take my ruler and i'm gonna measure right there that's the end of the one okay two and a half inches and that's where i'm going to cut this one and i know that feels scary it's always scary to cut but you know if you messed up you could always sew that piece back onto here and make it work so okay now that we have those overlapping two and a half inches we're going to take them apart like this and i'm going to pull this all together to make it a little easier then we're going to do that same thing where we overlapped them like this about a quarter of an inch like i said this can feel a little awkward if you don't have much space here but just do your best and then we're going to sew that diagonal bias seam right there and then when it opens up it's going to be like that we'll trim off the ends and if we did everything right it should fit just perfectly so let's go back to our machine just like we did before we're going to sew from this little notch down to this one and i have these perpendicular with each other and over overhanging just about about a quarter of an inch okay back stitch there and like i said if you mess up it's okay you can take it out you can add more fabric there's always ways to make it work okay then let's see how it looks the seam looks great and then i love this moment of pulling it next to my quilt before you trim anything off you want to make sure oh yay it fits so perfectly i love that okay guys we are getting close let's trim this off right here just like we did with our other seams and then we're gonna sew the rest of this quilt binding in place and then we'll have to just sew it on the other side we'll sew it by hand okay back stitch and then sew down until we get to the beginning of where our binding started we go just like that perfect little binding okay let's sew it to the other side when you're hand sewing it takes a little while to figure out how you like to hold the quilt as you're sewing in fact sometimes i forget when i start a quilt again and i start holding it at the top and realize no i like to hold it at the bottom better and i like to use a few of these wonder clips they're really great for holding it in place as you are hand sewing around i used to use a bunch of them and you know hold a bunch of it in place and then i realized that that was kind of annoying because it takes a little while to hand sew and everything was falling off so i pretty much just use three or four at a time then i have my needle and thread here i have two strands of thread on there and i'm using a thread color that will blend in with my binding so i'm using pink i like to lick my fingers and do a little roll like that and tie a knot if you want to see that again i have a video here on my channel okay and then we're ready to start so i am going to i like to start just somewhere inside the binding like that so that the end of my thread is going to be hidden okay there we go now let me remove this one and we're going to take stitches and like i said you'll have to figure out how you like to hold it i like to go in this direction all the way down some people might go the other direction it kind of depends on if you're right-handed or left-handed and i'm going to go into my quilt a little bit and then i'm going to come up through my binding right there and pull it down go in right here come into your binding and then come out right along that top crease right there and pull it back down again you don't want to come out see that you don't want to come out there because then you're going to see the stitch i'm really trying to stay along this spine of my binding at least that's the way i like to do it you will find your groove and what works for you and you can see that those stitches are kind of hidden in there okay i'm just gonna keep going all the way around and when i get to my corner i will pause and show you what to do there okay and i am getting close to the end of my thread here so how do we finish that off that's a great question what i like to do let me do a couple more stitches here okay i like to open this up a little bit and tie a knife a knot off somewhere in here so i go into my fabric like that and i do a little knot it kind of pulls this tight but it will it'll work itself out and then i'll do it again what i'm trying to do is get this knot to be hidden down inside so that it's enclosed whoa i just broke off the end so i guess we're doing two there and then that will stay right inside there then i'm going to get a new needle and thread and i'm going to start back come out and then keep going okay here's my new thread i'm going to kind of go back where i tied that knot i'm going backwards as you can see i'm going to come out of my binding right there so that it again so that this is hidden you want all those threads to stay inside there and now i have a clean start again on this so i can go back and continue my stitches there we go and remember as you're going that you're trying to enclose this stitch line here so you want this to be going over it enough that it is enclosing that line and that is why i like doing two and a half inch wide binding two and a quarter looks beautiful i guess it's just a little more of a challenge for me maybe i should try it again we're at the corner and we want to fold our bindings that it creates a mitered corner so you can see that it naturally folds this direction creating a 45 degree angle for us then if we fold it back on itself you can see that it creates a nice diagonal cut for us right there and sometimes i have to do it a couple times till i get it just exactly where i want it there we go that looks pretty good and then there's a few different ways that you could hold this in place some people will just not stitch right there in the corner and continue on to the next side or some people like to stitch a little x or some little tacking area right there what i like to do is to go down inside of it so let me see if i can show you this um you can see that my stitching is at the end there i will kind of go down and i like to come out somewhere at the end there like that and then just pull that tight okay and then i will take a stitch or two going back just like i've been stitching along the rest of my quilt going back in the other direction and again that doesn't really matter you could not stitch it and it will still hold in place but i just like mine to be a little more secure looking so i'm going to come out of the corner right there and then after that i'm going to continue right down this other side there we go then just continue down do the same thing at the next corner and the nice thing is you have four corners so you get a lot of practice i'm back to the beginning of my binding i'm just doing my last stitches here and we want to finish off this thread and conceal our knot inside of the binding so let's see did i do that okay there we go you can see this last little part i'm going to tie a small knot here into the seam of the quilt there let's do a double knot like that tie one more [Music] okay and then i'll take my last stitch there we go and now i want to make my needle go through here so i'm going to come down so that we can hide the tail of this thread my needle is just going through i'm gonna come out somewhere down here let's see there we go okay so my knot is somewhere over here but my needle is down here so then i'm going to pull this tight like that cut this and that little tail is just hiding in there somewhere and look at our beautiful binding the corners look great it's so pretty oh i'm loving this quilt we are all done with our quilt and i love it so much it's so fun to see all these different fabrics together and then the backing fabric it's like two quilts in one oh man i hope you enjoyed making a quilt and all the different steps along the way it is quite a process but i think what i love is that with every stage just when i'm kind of getting sick of that stage you move on to the next one it's kind of like raising kids so i hope there are more quilts in your future and for more ideas and other patterns and information about my fabric you can head to my website madeeveryday.com and for all of your sewing machine needs and to check out the baby lock brilliant or the genuine series you can click the link below or go to babylock.com and happy quilting [Music] you

Channel: MADE Everyday

Views: 187,362

Rating: 4.9306145 out of 5

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Id: Eq3koiH4B8M

Length: 45min 2sec (2702 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 23 2021