I have the mitered corners down but since the quilt has a zig zag edge, I will have /\ corners and \/ corners, if you understand what I mean. If there was ever a better reason than making a new quilt, I can’t think of it. I may just have to try it! I’m feeling much better now. Thank you, thank you, my corners have always humped alittle and I was so tired my trying to fix them. She loves it. Wish I had read this just a few weeks earlier:). I have a few quilts that are ready to be bound, so I am going to try your method one those. Your photos are great for showing when you don’t make that turn just right…..wonderful, wonderful. If I had more time, I would finished off the quilt edge by making a hexagon facing (see Bad Skirt for her drool worthy tutorial). Thanks for the tips and the giveaway. They are great. Great Great Great tutorial. Thanks for the info on the binding, really appreciate all the close up photos. Make sure pull the binding all the way up, as far as your stitching will let you. Thanks for opening up a giveaway. I love your hex star pattern, that is SO CUTE! thanks. I love the Diamond Diva runner, and have never tried diamonds before, so would love these patterns to learn new skills! Instructions for cutting the binding strips. Do you have any other advice for GMFG binding? Re: Binding a scalloped edge Yes I know the feeling! Great tutorial! Thank you too, for the chance to win a pattern! Press over end of the beginning of binding. It is excellent. Press the binding fabric with the iron to remove all wrinkles and make it smooth. Thanks for the great tutorial – the step-by-step pictures are very helpful. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. A picture is worth a thousand words and the series of images really explain this technique….thanks for posting them. Stop sewing before you reach the corner of the quilt, ending the seam the same distance from the approaching quilt edge as the width of the seam allowance. Thank you for an excellent tutorial. I got the method I used on You Tube.And although they turned out not bad, your clear instructions would have been better. I was not happy with my results when I tried to bind a table runner with those angles, but now I know I can do it! I love your quilts also. Joscelyn … always learning, and appreciative. Oh Heather I hope I’m not too late to enter this give-a-way. Step 2. Stitch in the ditch or custom quilt as you like. You do beautiful work. Good reference pictures. I would love to win some of your lovely patterns – hope you pick my entry! Now I can finish them up in a hurry:). The folded edge should be facing in toward the quilt top. Thanks for the great tutorial. Thank you for the tip! I thought that was the way to do it, and I did it pretty successfully on one of your runners, shown here: http://millerslastresort.blogspot.com/2010/05/oh-my-goodness.html. I have no idea now many families have this tradition, but both my family and Joel’s both celebrate with lots of pancakes. I’ve bookmarked your blog for future reference and to see what else you are sharing. Excellent tutorial!!! Thank you so much for the binding tip. When you’re happy with the marked corners/edges, carefully cut out along the line with your rotary cutter or scissors. I have been quilting a long time and these corners are always a challenge! Thank you! I will bookmark this one . Thanks for the tips. Thanks again. This tutorial is well written and illustrated and is super easy to follow. I am just wanting to begin quilting and am already excited to try this. The Secret Garden Runner pattern is calling my name! I could have used this help when I made a runner a few years ago that had the larger angles. I experimented on a runner once before with odd corners and they came out okay – but that pin tip is the trick. Thanks for sharing! I have some of your fabrics waiting to be made into a quilt for my granddaughter and a table runner for my daughter-in-law, and your tutorial could not have come at a better time! Thankyou for the wonderful tutorial, patterns and your blog. Love your directions. Mary, I read all of your binding tutorials and now I’m ready to bind the five (or more) quilts stuffed in a bin under my bed because I didn’t want to tackle the job. very easy to follow and understand. (that point is hidden under my binding in this picture). I’ve been working on SweePea for a few months now. The 200+ Best, Hidden & Most Powerful Features & Changes for iPhone, 22 Things You Need to Know About iOS 14's Newly Redesigned Widgets for iPhone, Best New iOS 14 Home Screen Widgets & The Apps You Need, 13 Exciting New Features in Apple Photos for iOS 14, 9 Ways iOS 14 Improves Siri on Your iPhone, 16 New Apple Maps Features for iPhone in iOS 14, 19 Hidden New Features in iOS 14's Accessibility Menu, Every New Feature iOS 14 Brings to the Home App on Your iPhone. I would love a chance to win. Thanks for another great tutorial. Trim the edges evenly. I use facings on my quilts because they are meant to be decorative art to hang on the wall, rather than a functional piece for a bed. That’s what happens when getting too much fabric in the corners. Thank you for posting the tutorials with so many helpful photos. Your pictures are very clear and accurate. Thank you for sharing your binding technique. Thank you so much for this tutorial. I very much enjoy your blog. Thank you Heather for the great pictures showing how to do the binding. Great tutorial, thank you so much, I have always had problems binding on this angle. anne. Barb. To make bias tape, you cut fabric on a 45-degree diagonal in 2-inch strips. Thanks! have signed up for “trends and traditions”. This tutorial was just what I needed to bind my placemats with odd angles. Heather is a beautiful name. Like bindings’ thanks for the tutorial! Now fold the binding straight up, so it makes a straight line with the raw edge of the quilt as shown. Your tutorial is well explained and very carefully illustrated(I’m a visual learner). I would love to have a chance to win them so I can try them. Here’s the pattern front, which gives you a better idea of the shape of quilt we will be binding (see the lower right corner). You may wish to zig-zag the edges together at this point, before adding the binding but this is a personal choice and isn’t a necessary step. I did a hexagon tablerunner in December and could have benefited from this. Thanks for the great tutorial. Thanks for clearing all of that up! Now I wont be afraid to try a hexagon table topper. Thanks for the tutorial. That’s my way of learning, so I appreciate all your great pictures. This photo shows not getting quite enough fabric into that corner miter. I have tried several, but not really happy with what I am doing. What a wonderful tutorial Heather!! Any hints on binding these? Those odd corners have caused discouragement on more than one occasion. I've shown you how to make bias binding (you can find those instructions here, and you probably read one of my latest posts on how to cut scallop edges without Math (the template and instructions for my method on that can be found here Now, it’s time to actually do the binding! Here’s a close-up of that again. I also really admire your knitting endeavors. I am a newbie at quilting. Cheers Joanne. The extra layer adds durability to a quilt's edges. Heather thank you so much for doing this tutorial. And just wanted to say, too, that I LOVE your Christmas fabrics, At Home for the Holidays, especially the black background poinsettias. Thanks Heather for another great tutorial. Thanks for the lesson. Thanks. 1. align the binding raw edges with the quilt raw edge and, using a 1⁄ 4" seam allowance, sew the binding to the quilt, beginning at least 4"–6" from a corner, and leaving a tail of about 4"–6" (on large quilts, leave a tail of about 12"). Regards, Thanks for this very clear tutorial. I put it aside because I could not figure out how to do it nicely, and I was unable to find any clear directions online. Thank you, Heather, for that great tutorial. Sew to the back of one side of the quilt with right sides together. Nice to know you gals are out there to help us. After finishing a table runner with a fancy edge, bind it to finish your quilting project. I love your blog. any suggestions for that? I am rushing into my sewing room now and hope to be placing the finished topper on my table this weekend. Lucy. The hint with the pin and 90 degrees from the point really did the trick! This one is gorgeous and I’d love to try it out for myself! Mar 14, 2018 - This tutorial demonstrates how to finish your quilt that has irregular edges using a facing instead of binding. Love, love,love your patterns. Lay the binding strip on the right side of the quilt top, aligning raw edges of the binding and the quilt. Maybe my messy mitred corners will be a bit better now. What a great tutorial! Thank you so much for the wonderful advise! It is beautiful-Enjoy your blog so much-hugs, Marietta. Just leave me a comment to enter to win. Thanks. Great tutorial! Turn binding to the front and stitch through all the layers, covering the binding stitching line (I use a serpentine stitch). It’s really that easy. This type of binding protects the quilt's edges with just a single layer of fabric. Thanks for the tips. Thanks for taking the time to share. This tutorial is just what I was looking for. It’s really very easy after you follow your instructions. Your tutorials are so easy to follow and helpful. Your quilt patterns are always so appealing! 4. Thank you for the wonderful tutorial. Wow, I love it. I have struggled with this issue myself as I love the look of the octagon corner finishes so I do it often, especially on runners and toppers. Happy New Year! Now we can all have perfect corners. Now turn the quilt, so that the next side to be sewn is running parallel to your sewing foot as shown. They are great. Thanks so much. I would love to win your patterns. You have made the process very clear. Thanks for the tutorial and great photos. Now I insert a pin at a 90-degree angle from the outer point of the quilt. Thanks! You can use a ruler and rotary cutter for this purpose. Starting at the top and the bottom edges of your quilt, cut two strips of fabric each 2" wide and a wee bit longer then your top and bottom edges. I will have to try that pin trick. I’ve only made one quilt, with regular 90-degree angles, and I didn’t have too much trouble with those. This came at just the right time for me. How to Bind Scalloped Edges. I make tree skirts for wedding gifts, but I don’t have a tree skirt for my own tree! So enjoy your blogs. Thanks for sharing your expertise with us. Your to examples look exactly like what I was doing. I love your patterns. I love the tree skirt pattern! To add mitred corners on quilt binding, use a binding clip to hold the corner, fold the binding back down onto your quilt, aligning the raw edges along the next side. I had completed a one block wonder and did not square my quilt thus hexagonal with odd angles and inverted corners. What a fun pattern you designed with great directions as well. Fabulous tutorial. Now is the time to trim the edges of the quilt itself. Wow! Cool. Now thanks to your post I will be able to get one right. I have stumbled through binding non-square corners so I appreciate the step-by-step directions. Stitch this edge down, starting and stopping ¼in from each corner, as before. Binding finishes the edges of a quilt and there are quite a. ters use double-fold straight-grain binding unless the quilt. Oooh, I’d love to try these toppers. Great tutorial. Thank you for the “tut”. It’s great to learn new techniques. just found your tutorial on binding odd out side corners and sure glad I did. I’ve attempted the corners so thank you for the boy you make that look easy. Continue around the edge of the quilt, gluing, pressing and adding clips; the glue works quickly so the clips don’t need to stay in place for long. Thanks for the time and effort you put into it. Thanks for the tutorial Heather! I’m just starting to learn to quilt, and appreciate your easy to follow tutorials. Folding the quilt in half lengthwise and width-wise helps to … Thank you so much for showing the examples of what happens when you have too little or too much fabric turning the corners … that really helps this visual learner!! Always love learning something new from you. Your post really helped. Then draw a line from the intersection to the corner of the quilt. Thank you for the tutorial on binding. There you go – something new learned in 2011 already -thanks Sew the quilt binding to the side of the quilt, leaving the beginning tail free. Lay your tape on the edge of the quilt, starting away from the corners; match the raw edges, and make a mark two to three inches from the beginning of the tape. A knife-edge finish is also called knife-edge binding, but it’s really not a true binding. Trim the ends at 60 degree angles (or 45 degrees if you prefer). I’ve had a lot of requests for directions for my method of using a facing to finish an art quilt, instead of a traditional binding, so I decided it was time for a tutorial! Thank you for putting up this tutorial….well done!! Bring the binding over the quilt edge so that the double folded edge just covers the seam line (by just under 1/8”) and use a hot iron to press in place. With your long binding strip pressed in half, align the binding’s raw … I am also excited to look up the inside corner post. Instead of applying a binding, you simply sew around the edges of the quilt sandwich as if it were a giant pillowcase, leaving an opening on one … That is how I do my bindings for regular corners, but I liked the extra hints for lining your edges up and using the pin to get it just right. I am in the process of binding a Double Wedding Ring quilt and it has lots of corners. Thanks! Thank you for this excellent tutorial. See the pin again? Great tutorial…I’ve made lots of runners with angles like this and have just sort of been “winging” it…good to know the exact directions…I’ve had the corners turn out every way…and now know why! Thank you for the wonderful tutorial! Love your detailed pictures and notes. Thank you very much for all your hard working instructions and website. Sew the strips together, end to end. With my binding in hand I followed Jaybird Quilt’s tutorial, and was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to sew the binding down to the quilt top. You have some leeway, as the cut edge will be hidden under the facing. The photos of your home and studio are lovely, and there is always so much inspiration for me. Binding keeps the edges intact and can add another element to the quilt's design. The facing method allows you to avoid mitering every corner. I would love to learn how to sew binding that has strange angles. The facing method allows you to avoid mitering every corner. Apply binding to a quilt in 6 easy steps. I’ve never tried to bind those kind of corners, but your explanation was great! The facing method allows you to avoid mitering every corner. I have several table toppers with the odd angle corners waiting for binding. Instead of applying a binding, you simply sew around the edges of the quilt sandwich as if it were a giant pillowcase, leaving an opening on one side that’s big enough to turn the “pillowcase” inside out. Many thanks. I was wondering how this would be done. That would be a nice way to practice wide-angle binding. Then start sewing until you hit the next corner. Unlike most modern quilts, old British coverlets and quilts usually have a knife-edge finish rather than a binding. Was a little tricky… but it just takes a little practice! I am fairly new to quilting and I found your binding tutorial just too late for my present giving. Your tutorial came to my rescue. The you for the best tutorial on hexagone binding. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and skill in such easy but detailed directions. Those patterns are adorable. I use the same thread I used for hand-quilting. Cut 2 strips 2 1/2″ x the width of two opposite sides of your quilt–I usually start with the top and the bottom. Thanks, Heather. Use the seam allowance you chose when you made the quilt binding. I know I will be back to revisit this when I need it. Great tutorial Heather- I still struggle some with the mitered corners on quilts and trying to get them so they lie the way they should. Place clips to hold everything in place. Heather, thank you for showing us this helpful tutorial. The most popular method is to use binding which protects the edges of your quilt from a lot of wear. Tip #2 – Flannel Binding This is a fun way to finish flannel quilts for children. I am constantly amazed at the talent and creative minds on these quilting blogs. 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