Permission to or quilting"laws"......

Now see, I thought that rule had been revoked ... most patterns that I've seen here lately talk about straight of grain binding, not bias.

In fact, two magazines I read say it's best to use strips cut on the SoG than bias ....

What do ya'll say??

Oops!! I just got busted on this one, too. My baby is a 10 year old Kenmore (manufactured by Janome) that I bought used for $300!!

*sigh* I sure do hope chocolate's allowed in my cell and I'm allowed 'net access so I can buy fabric!! :)

I wonder what kind of voltage jail cells have? :)

I cut my bindings on the width of the fabric. I like the tiny but of give/stretch that it has because I can correct little wobbles in the edge of the quilt by gently stretching the binding and letting it 'pull' the oopsies into a flatter edge.

Leslie, Missy & The Furbabies in MO. where 'we' are painting the lower half of the bedroom walls BLUE! I have several blue tinted happy tails on my HairyButt Gang. They *always* have to help me paint! But their tails make some strange brush marks when they paint with them..... LOL

I usually use cut my binding strips on the cross grain. The cross grain has a bit more stretch than the lengthwise grain, but a lot less than bias. I only use bias for design reasons (for example, a striped or plaid binding) or if I am binding a curved edge.

Julia in MN

Just bought Karen McTavish's book on how to become a better quilter, which is directed to people planning to enter shows. Not that I intend to, far from it, but we all have room to improve. On her list of things most judges look for is "bias binding". Judges also like us to stitch down the little mitered corners and finish the back by hand. Plenty of room for rule-breaking there! Roberta in D

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I don't use bias binding, straight grain binding is perfectly adequate IMNSHO.

I do stitch the back by hand (usually) but I don't bother to stitch the mitres down in addition. If I sew the binding by machine I now (thanks to a tip from RCTQ) hand tack about two inches out from each corner and then machine the whole lot down. I find this gives me much neater mitres.

Lizzy

On the last couple bindings that I stitched entirely by machine, I used Wonder Tape (water soluble, double stick) to hold the miters in place while I stitched them. A bit of extra work up front, but well worth the effort.

Julia in MN

Funny that you mentioned judges and binding...A friend had a small wall hanging entered in a show and the judges comment was that her binding was too wide. Too wide for whom? There isn't a steadfast rule about the width of a binding...is there? She just didn't know where the judge got that idea... this gal used to own a quilt shop and knows that "rules" are made to be broken--I'd call it artistic license ! I hope that judges don't pick a bias bound quilt over a straight cut bound quilt just because of that one thing. That's interesting thought though for entering into shows. Thx...Mary

I've just been organizing my sewing stuff and found wonder tape and think I bought it for applying zippers---something I don't do anymore. Guess I'll try it for binding ! I now sew the binding completely by machine. Perhaps if I were to enter one in a show I'd sew the back down by hand but for gks and family quilts that get washed a lot I can rest assured that they will stay together better than my hand sewn ones. When I see the tiny stitches a lot of people use for their hand work I can see that mine just don't measure up !! Mary

I missed this first time 'round.

Huh??!! How can you press from the back???

I always press from the front while piecing, then only at the end I press the whole top front the back and the front.

Hanne > Alex Anderson presses from the front so she won't get tucks too. We're

I almost always make bias binding 'cause I like striped binding on the bias, and I never miter my corners, 'cause I make ROUND corners.

B>I don't use bias binding, straight grain binding is perfectly adequate >IMNSHO.

I was present at a judging where my wall quilt was on the table being judged. There were two borders on it, the inner border was 5/8" wide and the outer border was about 1 1/4" wide. I intentionally made the binding the same width as the 2nd border so the binding was part of the design, making the wallhanging look like it actually had three borders. One of the judges side that the binding was awfuly wide for such a small quilt, and then the other judge (bless her heart) pointed to the inner border and commented that it was probably the quiltmaker's intent to mirror the inner border. The judge's comment sheet said "good binding". . (Being a part of the judging committe, one must keep one's mouth shut during the judging, especially about one's OWN quilt, so there was a frantic moment there for me LOL)

That was at my first judging experience, at the first quilt show I entered. I was still a beginner quiltmaker and needless to say I learned quite a lot about quilt judging that day!

Mickie

Like Mickey's post suggests, it might be that the judges thought that compared to the design the binding was too wide, as opposed to structurally too wide.

I agree, there isn't a rule about the width of the binding other than fit the the design - or maybe there is, but there shouldn't be :-)

Me, I need to grow out of very skinny bindings...

Hanne > Funny that you mentioned judges and binding...A friend had a small wall > hanging

Actually it looked fine. This gal has an excellent eye for proportion and very good at designing so it didn't look off at all...but judging, I'm sure, is one of those subjective things. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, etc. I'm sure some judges have a hard time trying to think out side the box. I wonder how some of the more traditionalist judges deal with the art quilts of today !! Mary

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I was taught (but have since abandoned) that you ALWAYS cut bindings on the bias ... first time I ever disobeyed that "law" was when I just had to finish a quilt and ran out of fabric - so I cut it on the width. Strangely enough, I wasn't struck by lightening, my quilting stitches weren't made HUGE and uneven, and my fabric stash didn't {poof} away.

But I'll admit that I was embarrassed by that quilt (though, even if you eyeballed it REALLY closely, you couldn't tell that I didn't obey the "bias law") and kept waiting for some catastrophe. Never happened. Since then, I do whatever the quilt "tells me to." Sometimes, it's bias, sometimes it's SoG. :)

Ugh ... I have a hallway to paint (after Turkey Day) .... don't suppose I could hire the HB Gang to help, could I? Something tells me that they'd make less of a mess than I or the kiddos would!! And I doubt that they could possibly whine as loudly as my son will over havin' to do his part!! :)

Don't suppose you have pics of those cute l'il blue tails waggin', do you??!!! :)

Hugs!! Connie :)