How to Attach a Satin Blanket Binding to a Baby Blanket With Corners
Babies love to stick satin bindings in their mouths, probably because the satin is soft and feels good on their gums. Many commercial blanket makers add satin to their baby blankets, and most parents who like to make their own blankets want to add satin, too. Luckily, satin bindings for blankets are sold in most fabric stores. They come in several sizes and colors, perfect for adding to that new quilt.
Things You'll Need
- Satin binding
- Quilt batting
- Blanket material
- Cotton thread
- Scissors
- Pins
- Sewing machine
- Paper
- Pen
- Tailor's chalk
Instructions
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Select the satin seam binding that you want. Cut quilt batting 1/2 inch shorter than the width of the seam binding. Measure each side of the blanket and add twice the width of the seam binding plus 2 inches to the length of each side. Cut the length of your quilt batting to the size of the blanket (do not add additional inches).
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Sew around your blanket edge with a wide zig-zag stitch. Use cotton thread. This stitch is to stabilize the edge of the blanket, if it is made of material that likes to fray.
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Create a mitered corner pattern for your satin binding. For example, if the satin binding is 2 1/8 inches wide, fold an 8 1/2 by 11-inch paper in half to 4 1/4 by 11 inches. Crease your seam. Open the paper and fold 2 1/8 inches (half of the 4 1/4-inch section). Repeat this for both sides. The paper should be 11 inches long with 2 1/8 inches folded from each side to the center. Label one end of the 11-inch side as the bottom. Measure 6 inches from the bottom edge of the paper and draw a pen line at right angles across the 4 1/4-inch width. Label this pen line as the corner of the blanket.
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Measure 2 1/8 inches from the line toward the top and draw a second line. Label the second line as the corner of the satin binding. Fold the paper back along the satin binding line and crease well. Bend the top corner of the seam binding line diagonally to the center so that it fits along the blanket line. Crease the diagonal. Bend the bottom corner of the seam binding line diagonally to the center so that it fits along the blanket line and crease the diagonal.
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Open the paper until both lines are visible and on top. Fold the top corner of the seam binding edge to the center along the diagonal. Fold the bottom corner of the seam binding edge to the center along the diagonal. You should have a folded piece of paper pointing straight up. This is the piece that attaches to your second side of satin binding. Fold the remaining 11-inch length along your original fold and you will have a mitered corner on both sides of the fabric, plus a tab where the satin continues around the corner.
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Take one satin binding strip. Fold the left end to the inside 1/2 inch and iron. Measure from the fold the width of your satin binding strip. Add your quilt batting from this mark. Open your binding. Measure the length of your blanket side from the last mark, subtracting 1 inch for seams. This is your first line. Pin or mark the line with tailor's chalk. Measure the width of your binding and mark your second line. Fold your diagonals.
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Tuck your blanket into the corner and under the edges of the satin binding strip by 1/2 inch. Pin through the satin, the blanket and the back side of satin. Turn your blanket to the left and down. Take your second satin strip. Turn the left ends under 1/2 inch and iron. Tuck the ironed edge over the tab remaining from the first corner. Insert your quilt batting. Measure your blanket length minus 1 inch for seams and build your next corner. Continue around the remaining two corners. Pin securely, as satin is slippery.
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Sew around your satin binding inside edge using a large zig-zag stitch. Your stitch should go through both pieces of satin and the blanket. Your corners should be mitered, and there should be no seams on the binding edge.
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Tips & Warnings
This project sounds harder than it is. Once you make your paper pattern for corners you will see how each binding fits to the next. With the corner design hidden, your friends won't see how you made the corners.
References
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