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

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

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

Week 5 Squaring off and binding your quilt

Gather your tools and supplies

Layout your quilt on your cutting mat

Cut off the excess batting and backing

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

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

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

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