How To Bind Your Quilt
For my binding I use 2 1/4″ folded WST (wrong sides together) . While attaching my binding to the top of my quilt I use 1/4″ stitch foot. Use the two videos below to help you with the corners and joining the binding at the end. I then fold my binding over to the backside of the quilt and stitch in the ditch from the front.
Practice Practice!! You will get it also.
Here are two videos that I found helpful this first one is about joining your ends when you had done attaching your binding to the quilt and the second one is doing the mitered corners…
The pictures below is to show how to join your strips to make one long binding strip.
The first picture shows you where to stitch when you put the second strip RST (right side together) on top of the first strip. I show the stitching in blue so that it can been seen.
The second photo shows how it should look once pressed and open. After that you can trim off 1/4″ away from the stitch line. Make sure its how you want it before you cut.
This was first seen on my Piece A Quilt blog but I’m closing that down and having one blog.
***Note: After many years of stitching on the binding, my favorite is cutting the binding to 3″ and using the width of my walking foot. I stitch the binding to the top of my quilt, fold it over, then from the front I stitch in the ditch all the way around. This is the method that I prefer and of course you will find your own way to bind your quilt.
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