Attaching a Binding for a Quilted Table Runner

Video Transcript

"Hi, welcome to Expert Village, I'm Gretchen Soares and today we're going to make a fancy four patch table runner. In this step we are going to take our made binding and our made table runner and attach them together. So we take our binding and we lay it right along the edge of the table runner. We aren't going to take any of the pins out yet. We're not going to take anything out. We're going to add this on so pinning it right perpendicular to how we're going to sew it right along the edge. At the corner we're going to turn and we are going to give it just a little fold there so it has room to go around the corner. And in this first step we're going to go ahead and pin all the way up to this point. So we're going to trim it just past this point and that's as much as we need for the first step. We're going to go ahead and finish pinning that in place. Okay, now that we have the binding all pinned on we're going to go ahead and attach it. We're just going to start at the edge there and sew right along the edge removing the pins as we come to them. Now that we have our first side of binding on we going to come trim right next to the edge all the excess off, leaving a nice even half inch along the edge for our binding to roll over. That will give us a nice clean finish look. Once we've trimmed our edge we can roll this back to the backside, even though we put the first pin in the back to stabilize it, we're going to pin it from the front, right along the crease line or right along the seam line there and then flip to the back to make sure we caught it right here, because we're actually going to sew this from this front side. So we want the pins on the side we're going to sew from. As we go through we want to make sure we get all these little strings trimmed up and it's going to be a nice neat finish for us. Okay, once we have that all pinned, we can take this to the machine and sew this edge of the binding on. Okay, for this part of the binding, we are going to line the machine up so that it guides right on the seam of where we put the binding on and we're going to stitch so that it catches on the back side. Okay, once we have the first edge completed we're going to pin the binding on the second edge the exact same way only we're going to wrap it around the edge and pin it so that it goes around the edge on both ends and then we're ready to sew the second side on."