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WATCH | YouTube Video – Week 5 – Part A – Squaring off your quilt | |
WATCH | YouTube Video – Week 5 – Part B – How to make binding for a quilt | |
WATCH | YouTube Video – Week 5 – Part C – How to bind your quilt | |
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PREPARE | 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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