Binding a Homemade Quilt
Binding your quilt refers to the process of sewing a thin strip of fabric all the way around the quilt. This hides the raw edges of the batting and backing, giving your quilt its elegant finished appearance. Attaching the binding can be a tricky process, however. If you do not know what you are doing, you may end up with raw binding edges showing. Avoid this by using proper binding technique. There are many ways to bind a quilt, but you can keep it simple for now.
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Fold your binding in half. This binding should be a single strip long enough to go all the way around your quilt. If necessary, sew several binding strips together to achieve the necessary length. The side of the binding that you wish to show should be on the outside of the folded binding strip. Iron the strip to crease it in half.
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Lay the folded strip of binding on top of the quilt. The open side of the binding should be flush with the edge of the quilt. Sew the binding along the quilt, approximately one-quarter inch from the edge of the quilt, until you reach approximately one-quarter inch from a corner.
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Lift the needle on the sewing machine and pull out the quilt. Fold the binding downward so the open edge is now flush with the next edge of the quilt. Return the quilt to the sewing machine and sew all the way down this edge. Repeat this process at each corner until you have attached the binding all the way around the quilt.
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Fold the binding over to reach the bottom of the quilt. Pull a threaded needle through the binding from bottom to top, and then stick it back through the binding almost exactly where it came up.
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Snag the backing of the quilt with the needle. Pull the needle back up through the binding approximately one-quarter inch from your original stick, and then stick it back down through almost the same hole. Snag the backing again. Repeat this process all the way around the quilt. This leaves an elegantly finished quilt with an almost invisible stitch on the back of the binding.
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