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Making a Baby Quilt
Cutting Fabric for a Baby Quilt
Connecting a Bias Strip to a Quilt
Finishing a Binding Strip on a Quilt
Making Borders for a Baby Quilt
Attaching Quilt Borders
Sewing Quilt Bindings
Using a Quilt Sewing Machine
Making a Sandwich Quilt
Making Quilt Seams
Trimming Quilt Edges
Summary: How to finish a binding strip on a quilt; get expert tips and advice on making a quilt in this free instructional video.
Shelly Cordsen has been sewing and crafting for years. She offers classes around the Southwest demonstrating many different advanced techniques. Shelly is constantly learning and loves...read more
" Hi! I am Shelly Cordsen at Expert Village.com and I am still sewing away. I am now doing the binding. I have come to the end where I want to come in and join them and I do not want to lay this in here, pull this over the top and just sew because you will have an opening here; you will have extra bulk that you do not need, so I am going to show you how to connect it as a bias strip. So I have this coming up to here with my tail and I have from here to here. I want some room to sew. So I am going to stop right there, just do a couple of back stitches and take it off the machine and I am going to spread out here. I am going to lay this out and I am going to bring this up to here and you can see where my fold is in that point. I am going to lie this over the top of it. Okay. So now that is over the top and you can see where that point is of that fold I have. I am going to go about 1/8th of an inch to the top and put a pin right in that fold. Now I am going to take that top layer and I am going to open it up like this. We are back to our number 7. We are going to take this, open it up and because you have ironed that, you have a crease this way and you can see where your center is. You want that center crease to land right there on top of that pin and here is our number 7 again, going this way and this way. I am going to take that pin and I am going to mark across here and another pin down here and now I am going to sew on and check your fabric here. We are going to come to that point and we are going to come right down to the center where you see that fold is and come out and that crease right there. Just kind of eyeball it and out of that crease take it out, remove my pin and there I am. You need to test this. You can see that fits just perfect right there. Open this up, take your handy dandy scissors and trim off about a quarter inch. You will need to open this up. Remember we want all our seams open, nice and flat, folded in half and then you’ll put that back on your machine and sew that down all the way and you have eliminated 99% of all bulk by doing a bias seam."
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Comments
newnana said
on 9/16/2009 Good videos, but I think they're out of order. Specifically, the binding instructions should be last, shouldn't they?
pattiann42 said
on 8/2/2008 Unclear as to the width of the binding. Great video sequencing. Will recommend these videos to beginners.
newdiyer said
on 3/5/2009 I like this series and am going to try my first quilt, however it would be much more helpful if these videos were listed in the order in which they should be done, and not in alphabetical order. I find myself watching little clips of each one to see how far along the quilt is to see if I am moving along properly.
One thing I can't figure out - which video will show how to START the binding, like measure it, cut it, and sew it together (presumably the one that would come directly before this one)?
txsckb said
on 5/3/2009 Shelly,
Thanks so much for the expert videos on the bias binding. Your method is the best I have seen and really got me out of a jam with a memory quilt I am doing for my brother. What did we EVER do without the internet?