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YouTube Video – Week 5 – Part A – Squaring off your quilt

 
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YouTube Video – Week 5 – Part B – How to make binding for a quilt

 
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YouTube Video – Week 5 – Part C – How to bind your quilt

 
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Week 5 Squaring off and binding your quilt

 
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Gather your tools and supplies

 
TASK: SQUARING OFF YOUR QUILT

Layout your quilt on your cutting mat

 
 

Cut off the excess batting and backing

 
TASK: MAKING YOUR BINDING

Cut your fabric into 2½” strips

 
 

Place a 2½” strip with the right side facing you horizontally

 
 

Then place another 2½” strip with the wrong side facing you vertically

 
 

With a ruler draw a 45 degree angle line from corner to corner

 
 

Pin on each side, making sure you have room to sew

 
 

Sew along the line with a standard walking foot

 
 

Repeat for all your strips

 
 

Trim the excess fabric to 1/4 “ seam and the little excess triangles

 
 

Press open

 
TASK: ATTACH YOUR BINDING

Fold your binding in half with the wrong sides together, lining up the edges carefully

 
 

Start in the middle of a side and leave a tail of approximately 10”

 
 

With a pin mark a ¼” from the bottom of the edge

 
 

Clip your folded binding to the top of your quilt

 
 

Stitch with a ¼” seam from where you have your tail, to your pin that marks a ¼” from the bottom

 
 

For the corners, fold the binding over to the right making a right angle, then fold the binding back over to line up with the edge of your quilt, clip in place

 
 

Mark a ¼” with a pin to show you where to start sewing

 
 

Clip your folded binding to the top of your quilt, with all the edges lined up carefully

 
 

With a pin mark a ¼” from the bottom of the edge you are working

 
 

Begin sewing from the ¼” mark down to the bottom pin marking a ¼”

 
 

Ensure you backstitch at the beginning and the end

 
 

Repeat until you have sewn all four sides, leaving about 16” from where you began

 
TASK: SEW THE TAILS TOGETHER

Take the first tail then place the second tail over the top

 
 

Measure and mark a line with a 2½” overlap

 
 

Cut the binding at the line you made

 
 

Take the left hand tail, with the right side facing up and place it vertically

 
 

Take the right hand tail, with the right side facing down and place it horizontally

 
 

Allow a small overlap no more than 1/8”

 
 

With a ruler draw a 45 degree angle line from corner to corner

 
 

Pin on each side and sew

 
 

Cut off the excess fabric at the join and finger press open

 
 

Pin and sew the last piece of binding on, backstitching at the beginning and end

 
TASK: FINISHING ATTACHING THE BINDING

Press your binding open, do not press the corners

 
 

Trim off some of the excess batting from the corner

 
 

Fold the corners over to the back, starting with the side that is on top, then folding over the other side, check that the back has formed a mitred join, and adjust as required

 
 

Fold your binding over and clip it in place

 
 

Machine stitch from the front by doing stitch in the ditch OR hand stitch from the back

 

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