Re: New Way of Binding

Apparently Ricky Timms (sp) is teaching a new way to bind quilts that

> includes piping and machine stitching it all down (no hand stitching). > Anyone tried it out? I heard the mitered corners take practice.

It's not all that new, but yes, I've done it. DH also did it on his first quilt after I talked him through it.

The piping adds a little more bulk, but other than dealing with that, doesn't really present any more difficulties.

As to machine stitching the binding, that's how I do all my quilts. Interestingly enough, I've seen quilts over 100 years old that had machine stitched binding, and the binding fabric appears to be original (same fabric, same amount of wear and fading as fabrics in the quilt.). Since the binding was applied to the back and flipped to the front, I have to assume the machine stitching was original, too. One quilt historian I talked to said that was really the style in Canada in the

1930's.
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Kathy Applebaum
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taria

That's how I bind, sew to back, flip to front, sew down. However, my goal is to enter a quilt in NJ's big show next year. I'll do that one the "traditional" way. :)

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Melissa in NJ

And I use a decorative stitch and often variegated thread when I sew it down on the front. I try to always use this on baby quilts. Seems like it would stay put longer after many many washings. I use the traditional method for everything else. There is something very satisfying about hand stitching the binding down, turning the corners well and being FINISHED!

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Joan8904

I agree about hand sewing the binding down. I hand sewed the Ohio Star and does give a different sense of accomplishment done by hand. I do like the idea of machine stitching down with a decorative stitch on the front though.

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Shawn

I've never had a negative judges comment about machine sewn bindings. :)

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Kathy Applebaum

A friend entered a wall hanging and a judge commented on the wide binding. It was the usual narrow amount on the front and then she had wrapped it to the back and hand sewed it down-- it was at least an inch wide on the back...it was just her way of doing it as she didn't feel like cutting it down ! I thought the judge shouldn't have given a negative feedback on it because who is to say that there is a preferred way to do something like that?. She did get a ribbon on it though...she had designed and cross stitched 5 blocks on a medieval theme that were just lovely.

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