Binding question

I usually don't do it....but I know you are supposed to according to judging rules.

I don't do mitered corners but I have read/heard you are supposed to sneak some kind of invisible stitching into the pleat part of the miter on both the front and back. Congrats on your wins!

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

wow!! thanks for that tip, Jenn. ...along the back binding to the corner, up the mitre on one side, thru the fabric to the front, down the mitre to the binding, thru the fabric to the back, carry on along the back binding. geez, i was doing it separately. what was i thinking. clever you!! cheers, jeanne

"jennellh" wrote... If I'm hand sew> Last August I enter some quilts at our local county fair.

Could be the difference in a blue ribbon and a red one, Donna. Sew the darn things. The same judge will likely appear again and you will be ready. For no reason I can think of, my miters always turn out really pretty and it's never crossed my mind that they could need a stitch. There's nothing there to ravel. However, while I'm taking a quilting break, do let me add this. Nothing would tempt me to be a judge at a quilt show and I seldom, if ever, agree with their decisions. I am very grateful to those of you who do enter. It's a grand pleasure to share your creations. I applaud you all. Polly

Hi, Polly Yeah, next time I will do the front. Just never thought of it because they didn't need it....and this was the first time I had entered anything so now I know better for the next time.

It was fun entering at the fair. But I was hoping they'd all be hung up so that I could take some good pictures of my stuff. :) That didn't work out either as they were folded, half covered and all that. This is a small county fair and space is a premium. I did earn a special ribbon for having entering the most quilts! And yep, only one red, so I'm happy about that.

Donna in WA

That's the way I do it, too. Most of my bindings are stitched completely by machine, so the folds aren't stitched, but if I am sewing the back down by hand, I do stitch the folds.

Julia in MN

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----------- jennellh wrote:

That was the comment on the quilts in our town's show also. Guess it's a good idea, though I've never done it. Gen

I've always sewed the front of the mitered corners on my quilts. I just find it very easy to do mitered corners, I know I'm weird. I line up my raw edges of my binding and edge of my quilt and fold to the back with a finished edge that I blind stitch in place, another I know I'm weird, and have a natural miter on the front and back which I blind stitch since I have this uncanny ability to do so without the stitches showing at all. I know, by Mom hates me for this and I'm weird. I never did know that it was supposed to be done, I just never really cared for that little "open" spot that resulted. There is a way, and for the life of me I just can't get it to work although my Mom can, that after sewing the binding on you can fold the quilt from a corner into a triangle to have the binding at the corner lay flat and then machine sew a 90 degree corner somehow from the point of the quilt and binding and when you then flip the binding to the back there is a perfect sewed mitered corner front and back. I have a small piece of paper somewhere with a "diagram" drawn by Mom. I really should try to decipher it again.

For what its worth.

Steven Alaska

"your binding on the corners are not sewed down on the front side of your quilt(s)"

Now, I have never sewed the the front side of the corners of my quilts, only the back corners/turns. I haven't even read anywhere that one should do this and I have my share of quilting magazines.

Do you all sew the front side of your corners?

Have I missed the boat on this one?

Donna in WA

I do sew mine down on both front and back. It's pretty easy to slip the needle through to the front as you're going around, take those few stitches and then go back to the back again. Congratulations on your ribbons!

I've been a judging clerk for several years and I notice time and time again the judges have that noted. Once I learned that, I always stitch the front in I'm entering it in the fair. They also like a filled binding.

Tamara

DEM wrote:

Yes exactly, the only difference is that I use a continous piece and pivot at the corner. I think I actually have one of those tools, it came as a "gift" in some package and I've never known how to use it. Now Mom's "diagram" and the tool, and this video, and my binding, all make sense. I just have to do them all together now. What I will need to do is make a "dummy" guilt of like a foot square to test it out. If I do that I will take pictures along the way, for my aging brain, and will have Bert make a web page for me that I can send the link to you to look at.

Steven Alaska

steve wrote:

I'd like to see it when your all up and running.

Tamara

steve wrote:

Me, too. Except I sew the back mitre first, then the front :-)

Hanne > If I'm hand sewing the binding down, then I also sew the front and

I did this once (well, twice), see

However, I found it very difficult to do the seams, since there is a lot of bulk with a folded quilt corner and two sets of binding strips. It was one of those blood, sweat and well, not quite tears moments, but I really was not happy with the process. Looks good on the wall though. But for me definitely not something to show a judge...

If anyone has any suggestions as to how that can possible work well in practice, I'm listening!

Hanne in London

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