How do you make a perfect quilt binding?

How do you make a perfect quilt binding?

Perfect Binding for a Quilt

  1. Step 1: Cut Your Binding Strips.
  2. Step 2: Joining Strips.
  3. Step 3: Fold the Strip and Pin in Place.
  4. Step 4: Mitering the Corner.
  5. Step 5: Joining the End to the Beginning.
  6. Step 6: Wrapping the Edge.
  7. Step 7: Mitering the Corner (part 2)

How thick should bindings be on a quilt?

The standard choice is 2 1/4″ or 2 1/2″ depending on how wide you want your finished binding to look. They are both attached in the same way. Consider the thickness or loft of your quilt as this will affect the finished look of the binding.

How do I stop my quilt from wavy binding?

If the center of a quilt is heavily quilted but the borders are not, it is very common to have wavy bindings. This happens to me all the time! One way to prevent this from happening is to sandwich your quilt top without the border, leaving enough material around the edges to add the border later.

Can you quilt after binding?

By attaching the binding before I quilted the border, I had a perfect visual of the space I could quilt in. You might ask why I didn’t just go ahead and stitch the binding in place on the back before quilting. My answer: My bindings are always wider on the back than the front.

Should quilt binding be cut on the bias?

For a square quilt straight grain binding, meaning fabric strips cut cross grain or length-wise grain, will work well. If, however, you’re binding a quilt with curved edges, you’ll want to cut bias strips for your binding. The stretch in the bias makes it easier to maneuver the binding around the quilt’s curved edges.

How do you double bind a quilt?

Once you have one long strip of fabric, fold it in half lengthwise, wrong sides together, matching up the two long raw edges. Press the fold. This is double fold binding!

How do you bind around curves?

To bind curves you’ll need to cut your binding strips on the bias as this has more stretch than the straight grain. Trying to bind corners with straight grain strips will create undesirable results as they won’t have the bend and give that the bias has. To cut bias strips, position your ruler at a 45-degree angle.

How do you finish the edges of a quilt?

Fold in half lengthwise and press. Using a ruler and rotary cutter and the quilt top as a guide, trim the excess batting and backing layers so that all edges of the quilt are the same. Be careful to keep the quilt’s sides square. Pin the raw edges (non-folded-edge) to the raw outside edges of the quilt front.