Help!

I still can't seem to figure out how to do the last corner when applying satin blanket binding. Someone suggested joining it on a straight edge instead of a miter, but it doesn't seem to look very good having a joint like that on a baby blanket. Can somebody please help??? Everytime I find some instructions on applying this binding, it tells me how to start but not how to finish. This roadblock is keeping me from finishing my projects and moving on to the next.

Peggy

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Peggy stood on a soapbox and shouted to anyone who would listen :

suggestion_ you've gotten a lot of good tips. Why not apply the "3 foot rule" move on. The 3 foot rule being, if you can't notice it from three feet away, don't worry about it. A baby is certainly not going to notice whether it's straight or mitered.

any good quilt book will illustrate both ways of closing it with pictures; that may be where you need to go if the ng isn't getting what you want.

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Peggy

Two different ways to do this.

1- Start applying the satin binding 6 inches or more from the corner leaving a tail of satin binding. Stitch all around the blanket, mitering corners as you go, and when you get back to the side you started on, stop 4 - 6 inches before the end.

Now join the remaining pieces on the bias and finish stitching the binding to the blanket. You will have a diagonal seam along one edge of the blanket.

2- Don't want a seam to show at all? Fold leading edge of satin binding over the first edge by about an inch. Make sure you have blanket fabric encased between top layer of satin and it's fold resulting in three layers of satin on bottom (both folded under edges and back of binding). Start sewing with folded edge at very edge of blanket. Continue sewing and at remaining three corners fold and miter each. When you get back to first corner stop sewing and remove blanket and binding from machine. Fold binding to create miter on top and bottom and fingerpress or iron lightly and place back under machine and finish seam. Finish by hand stitching very top of last corner to ensure both layers will not separate. It isn't necessary to stitch down whole corner, just the very tip where the two ends could pull apart.
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