Binding question

That's how i do mine too! but i only hand stitch them, i havent tried by machine yet.

amy in CNY

I always sew the miters on my corners closed when I hand sew the binding down. When I get to the corner I go through and stitch the front miter from inside corner to out, then pass the needle through and sew the back side miter from outer corner to inner, then continue on with the binding. This is one place that judges tend to look at and (according to the people who have clerked for the judges at our show....) binding is the downfall of many a quilt. So I just do it as a matter of course.

Pati, > Last August I enter some quilts at our local county fair. I

What is a "filled" binding?

This thread is interesting - I hadn't heard about sewing down the front of the binding before and never did it - personally I didn't think my nice neat little folds needed it! :-)

Allis> I've been a judging clerk for several years and I notice time and time

filled binding means that the binding was added with enough batting left on to fill the binding. some folks cut the batting back so close that there is none in the binding when they sew that on the front. it just looks odd to have the binding just flailing about like it doesnt really want to be there. if that makes any sense. i think leaving that wee bit of the mitre'd binding 'open' (not sewn down), somehow it looks unfinished. j.

"allisonh" wrotte...

That's when you can press the binding between your thumb and forefinger and feel batting. IMO, that is.

I think you misunderstood my problem - it has to do with fitting everything under the foot of the sewing machine when stitching the /\ seam on the binding, not about afterwards. Indeed, with this technique, I don't think there is much of a problem with seam bulk.

Ahem - that is my parents living room, not mine :-) But the light over the coffee table is great for eating by.

Hanne in London

I only did it on that one quilt - and it was after _hard_ thinking about whether I really needed to. But since the border is mitered in two contrasting colours, I decided to go with the pattern and do the same with the binding.

So I would say that some times it might be a design decision to change fabric on the corner. But personally, I would not do it again unless I had to.

Hanne > I am with you on this sandy. Why? is because folks can try

I am glad that you posted that photo again Hanne.

I can remember when you first posted that photo, but more recently had forgotten who had posted it. I do remember thinking it 'it will be different'. Then when I actually saw it WOW.

I have never forotten how stunning it was and whenever 'black, white and red' is mentioned I always think of yours.

Dee in Oz

Wow, thanks, Dee.

It was my first and so far only more or less to order. My parents redecorated their livingroom and asked for something black and wite for the wall. I had to add the red :-)

Frankly, at the time I was fed up with the quilt - way too repetitive for my liking. I remember cutting out more than 200 pairs of little squares/rectangles in just two fabrics! I would like to do some more tessellations, but they will be more varied.

But I do like it there on the wall.

Hanne in London

Dee > I am glad that you posted that photo again Hanne.

Hanne: What is ^ seam? Do you mean stitching the fold of the miter closed? I do that by hand ... regardless of how I stitched the binding. PAT in Sunny Virginia

No, no, this was related to the technique described at

It does stitch the miter closed, but it does this by connecting the two pieces of binding from different sides of the quilt. And when doing that I had big problems with the bulk of the folded "triangle" quilt. I'm referring to the video here...

I have no problem with normal mitered corners on my binding, just this two-coloured version.

Hanne in Sunny London :-)

Pat > Hanne:

It looks great. That is one wonderful quilt. So this technique is good for this one purpose but I think I'll stick to my easier for me method the old way. If you ever get tired of that quilt..... Taria

Hanne Gottliebsen wrote:

I agree, the regular method for mitered binding (which is probably what you use also) is _much_ easier.

Thanks for your kind words about the quilt.

Hanne > It looks great. That is one wonderful quilt. So this technique is

Interesting....I have been doing filled bindings without even realizing it. I thought maybe it meant 'extra' stuffing, like trapunto, because I couldn't imagine doing binding that felt like a flap.

Allison

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