Help! I am in the process of making four charity baby quilts. All four are pieced and quilted but I sure made a mess of the corners when I sewed the satin binding on the first quilt.
I want a 2" wide double fold satin binding filled with the quilt sandwich. I cut the satin 5" wide and sewed the cut edges of the satin strip together with a 1/2" seam and then attached this to my quilt 2" from the edge of the quilt. At the corners I stopped 2-1/2" from the corner, folded the binding up and back down and continued sewing down the other side of the quilt.
When it came time to fold the binding over to the other side of the quilt, I found it impossible to get the mitered corner on either side of the quilt. I finally pulled and tugged enough to get the material sewn down but it really is a mess.
This is the first time I have attached a binding off the edge (2") of the quilt. What did I do wrong? Is there a better alternative to the mitered corner for attaching a wide filled binding to my remaining three quilts?
Jerry in North Alabama