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How to bind a quilt | How to bind a quilt #sewingblogger #quilters #sewing #sewhappy #sewingtutorial #sewingforbeginners #sewinglove #sewinghacks #diy | By Hometown Quilt Company, LLC | I measured my quilt and I made my binding. It started out as one long three inch piece. I sewed it end to end to end to end to make sure that I had enough and here are my seams. So if you watch many quilting videos, they're going to tell you you have to sew them diagonally, you don't. This is how I did it for years and years and years and it's perfectly fine, okay? So if the diagonal seams intimidate you, don't do it. Just sew it like this. Sew end to end. Super simple. Then I took it to the ironing board and I ironed it in half. Okay? So now I want my binding to end on the back of my quilt. Because the back is the same as the binding. So I'm starting on the front. If I wanted my binding to end up on the front then I would start on the back. This is the corner of my quilt. I came down I don't know eight inches or so it looks like it doesn't matter. Just don't start in the corner because it won't finish nicely. Then I'm leaving a tail and I'm putting all of my raw edges together. Your binding is folded. So two edges of them are raw. You're going to put those raw edges next to the raw edge on your quilt. So you're you have your quilt and your two pieces of binding. So all of your raw edges are together. If it would make you more comfortable to pin then I want you to do that but y'all know I'm not a pinner so I'm not pinning mine. But you could clip it also. Now I'm going to say this with a straight stitch. So I have make sure that my machine is on a straight stitch. I have all of my raw edges together. And I'm going to follow the edge of my presser foot with the edge of my fabric. Alright, let's go. The Little Lady School is having a Fall Fest on Saturday and this quilt is to be auctioned off at the Fall Fest and it's super special because a bunch of us mamas got together one evening and made it. I can't wait to show y'all the whole quilt. Now, what I'm about to show you is going to give you pretty mitered seams. It seems intimidating but it's not. We're going to go out to the right and we're going to make this pretty 45 degree angle and then we're going to fold it over and come back to the left. Now, I'm going to sew all the way to my corner and when I get to the corner, I'm going to take my hand and roll this wheel towards me and that's going to put my needle down in my fabric, I'm going to raise my pressure foot and I'm going to turn my project. In my real life, when I'm not hanging out with y'all, I'm teaching beginners how to sew and I try to make all of the steps as easy as possible. At the end of my binding and I'm back to where I started. So, what we're going to do is make sure that we have plenty measure twice, cut once. Make it a little longer if you're not sure. Can always cut more off. Sucks to have to add it back on when you cut it too short and I know that from experience. We're going to fold this up like this and fold it in. Just like that. Make a little pocket. And then we're going to slide our binding into there. So that when we finish it it's not going to have any raw edges. I see people doing a diagonal right here which would work too. Some of them are going back and sewing their pieces together at a diagonal. Do not make it complicated. Don't make it complicated. Keep it simple. Keep it simple and you will do it. And it works. No matter what anybody tells you. So then we're going to stitch down And you have done one side of your binding. So now what we're going to do is turn it over. I always start at the same place every time. So I start somewhere and then when I come back to do the backside, I start in the same place. Hold your binding to the backside. So you're not going to see any of your binding on the front. And then we're going to sew a straight seam down this edge as close as we can get to it. I like to sew mine so close that it almost looks like it's going to fall off. But do what you're comfortable with. It doesn't have to be that close. So we're going to put this back under our machine. If I'm not following the edge of my fabric with the edge of my presser foot, then I find something else to guide me. Now there are ways you can move your needle on your machine but always forget to move it back and it doesn't work for me. So I just find a different guide. So I'm guiding mine farther to the left because I want it to be close to this edge. Okay? But now you can move your needle or you can do something different if you have a different method. We just want to sew to this outside edge on the back of our binding. When we get to the corner, we're just going to take this piece and fold it up. Needle down. Press your press your foot up. Same thing. Turn your project. If you have any hairy threads, tuck them in as you sew. Nobody wants threads hanging from that gift you just gave them. Nobody. Not a single soul. When you first start sewing, you don't need a lot of stuff. You need a sewing machine, a good pair of scissors, some pins, fabric, and you need a seam ripper. Now, the seam ripper, she gets a bad wrap but she's kind of amazing. Can you imagine anything else in your life where you can make a mistake over and over and over again and you use a simple tool and it comes out like it never happened. I want to seem ripper for when I said the wrong thing or when I overslept or when I didn't make it to something that I said I was going to. Where's my seam ripper for life? Don't forget to back stitch always because my grandmother said so. Take your handy dandy scissors. Cut off all your threads. Can look over your quilt and see if you have any threads hanging. Nobody wants to see that. Okay, let's go look at our quilt. My name is Tammy. I'm your favorite sewing teacher and I would love for you to come sew with me.

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