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Blind stitch for binding
Hmmm -good idea! Something else I haven't tried yet. Should work!
I often sew binding by machine, stitching on the front, folding to the back, then top-stitching. I make sure the cut edge of the sandwich, after attaching the binding is perfectly smooth. Then I trim off a quarter-inch point from the corners. Then over to the ironing board and press. The folded edge of the binding needs to come just three hairs over the stitching line. To make the corner miters smoother, make sure that the folded-under bits of the binding are on both sides of the miter, if that makes sense. Then hand-stitch the miters closed. If you have pressed everything perfectly, it is then possible to top stitch from the back, and the stitching line will fall in the ditch on the front. If you wanted to do it this way with a blind stitch, then the binding fold would only need to come one hair over the first stitching line. I think. Roberta in D "AliceW" schrieb im Newsbeitrag . .. Has anyone tried this method of sewing the binding to the back of a quilt? I know it's not supposed to be used for heirloom quilts or show quilts, but I have some quilts that are scrap quilts and basic utility quilts that I would love to find an easier way to sew the back binding down. Don't want it to look schlocky but don't want to put the long hours of hand sewing into it if I can avoid it. Thanks! I hope this hasn't been a recent topic that I missed. -- AliceW |
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Blind stitch for binding
Alice:
You surely can machine sew the binding on this project. I just finished a quilt where I sewed to the front, trimmed, pinned to back and then did my decorative stitch FROM THE FRONT! The key is that when I pinned to the back, I *made sure* that the folded edge just covered the stitching line. Of course I used thread to exactly match the binding fabric. Try it, you'll like it! PAT in VA/USA AliceW wrote: Thanks everyone. I have already sewn the binding onto the front so I think I'd better just bite the bullet and sew this one by hand. But I will really try the machine method the next time! Great tips as usual! |
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Mitered Binding Corners was Blind stitch for binding
To get pretty mitered corners, be aware of how the
tucks turn. Check it out on the sewn side, then make sure the tuck is in the OPPOSITE direction when you turn the binding. This makes for a neater and more precise miter. HTH. PAT in VA/USA AliceW wrote: I know the corners are a bear! I am anal to a fault about my corners. I was wondering how to handle them. I appreciate the advance warning. I don't want to rush through any of my quilts but there is a certain little guy who just turned 3 and needs a bed quilt since he is going into a "big boy" bed within the next few weeks. He wants "boats" on his bed, like Pop-Pop's boat. So, I need to start this quilt rather quickly you understand. Alice in NJ |
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Mitered Binding Corners was Blind stitch for binding
Talking to myself ... bad form! LOL To clarify: you
want the tucks turned in opposite directions on the opposing sides of the binding. You do not want to flip the existing tuck. I hope this is more clear. PAT Pat in Virginia wrote: To get pretty mitered corners, be aware of how the tucks turn. Check it out on the sewn side, then make sure the tuck is in the OPPOSITE direction when you turn the binding. This makes for a neater and more precise miter. HTH. PAT in VA/USA .. |
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Mitered Binding Corners was Blind stitch for binding
On Aug 31, 4:35 pm, Pat in Virginia wrote:
Talking to myself ... bad form! LOL To clarify: you want the tucks turned in opposite directions on the opposing sides of the binding. You do not want to flip the existing tuck. I hope this is more clear. PAT Pat in Virginia wrote: To get pretty mitered corners, be aware of how the tucks turn. Check it out on the sewn side, then make sure the tuck is in the OPPOSITE direction when you turn the binding. This makes for a neater and more precise miter. HTH. PAT in VA/USA . As Mud Pat! lol, no just kidding... I think I know what you mean and think I do it like that already. But I'll pay closer attention to the next one I do. Elly |
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Mitered Binding Corners was Blind stitch for binding
If you're interested, Sharon Schamber has a free binding lesson on her
web site. Go to http://www.sharonschamber.com/Free%20Stuff.htm and click on the Binding Lesson; it's well illustrated. I love her glue technique; it really makes getting that binding even very easy. But if you use it, be sure to heat set it, or it may not stick. The glue washes out very easily, and the tip she uses on the bottle is readily available at JoAnn's or Michael's, among other places. Look in the tole painting section. -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas sfoster 1 (at) earthlink (dot) net (remove/change the obvious) http://www.sandymike.net |
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Blind stitch for binding
On Aug 31, 3:30 am, Tia Mary wrote:
Polly Esther wrote: Just one more. You will not die if you have to baste the corners. It will still be a heap faster than handstitching the whole quilt. Polly I guess I will take my life in my own hands and explain again that I always do my binding by machine using a decorative stitch. I also put my binding on in ONE pass -- I don't sew the back side down and then turn to the front. I'm pretty sure it was Mary Ellen Hopkins who came up with this process. Anyway, I determine the width fabric I need, fold in half and then fold the ends to the center. I end up with something that looks like store bought bias binding but is double thickness and is straight of grain (assuming there are no curves in the edge of the quilt). I then put this binding over the raw edge of the quilt after I have put the quilt edge through the serger -- makes it a lot easier. I start in the center of the "bottom" and sew the binding down to the edge of the quilt -- NO stitches beyond the edge of the quilt or you won't be able to make the mitered corner turn. Break your thread and take the quilt from the machine. Now you can easily AND cleanly turn the binding to the next side because those stitches you have just completed hold the binding down and you can make a nice neat 45 degree mitered corner. By using a decorative stitch, I am certain to get both the front and the back side of the binding stitched down in just one pass through the machine. My favourite stitch is either the feather stitch (the one someone said looks like chicken feet) or the one I call "hills & valleys" which is a series of small, large, small /\ stitches to one side and then the same series of stitches to the other side. I also like to use variegated thread which helps in hiding any instances of pilot error. I haven't checked online to see if this method of applying quilt binding is described any better or with photos but it certainly does make binding application a LOT quicker and more enjoyable, at least for me. I join the ends in a diagonal seam so that it's not noticeable and just looks like the rest of the seams for making the length of binding. It's way difficult to try and explain how I do this but if anyone was interested I would be happy to give it a try. CiaoMeow ^;;^ PAX, Tia Mary ^;;^ (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at http://community.webshots.com/user/tiamary This sounds very interesting Tia Maria! I must give it a shot next time I make a quick quilt.... errr when have I ever made a quilt quickly?... hmmm Maybe in the next 2 weeks before out exhibit on 17th! Elly |
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Blind stitch for binding
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:14:52 -0400, "AliceW"
wrote: Has anyone tried this method of sewing the binding to the back of a quilt? I know it's not supposed to be used for heirloom quilts or show quilts, but I have some quilts that are scrap quilts and basic utility quilts that I would love to find an easier way to sew the back binding down. Don't want it to look schlocky but don't want to put the long hours of hand sewing into it if I can avoid it. Thanks! I hope this hasn't been a recent topic that I missed. You can use the machine's blind hem stitch a different way than was originally intended. It is often used as an applique stitch by just stitching along the top of the fabrics with the straight parts of the stitch running on the background fabric close beside the applique piece and the little zig zag part of the stitch zigs over to stitch through the edge of the applique piece. You would set the stitch length to something fairly short and the width to narrow so the zig just barely catches the edge. You could do the same with a binding, but I think I would set the width a little wider so it catches more than just one thread at the folded edge. Of course there is also no reason you can't simply straight stitch the binding on both sides of a utility quilt. Debra in VA See my quilts at http://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere |
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Blind stitch for binding
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:07:26 -0500, "Polly Esther"
wrote: Alice, try the one that looks like chicken tracks. (maybe 'feather' stitch?) . . . or the one that looks like little hills drawn with a single row of stitches (sort of a scallop). Any oops that you have with the blind stitch is going to be visible 15 feet away on a galloping horse. If you can, do your stitching from the top side of the quilt so you can control the appearance. The SM will try to bog down at the corners so you'll want to release the pressure of the presser foot some. Tell your SM that You are in control and use the hand wheel at the corners if you have to in order to have a uniform stitch. I didn't mean to make this sound so tedious; just thought I'd arm you with all the tricks. Polly That is the second time in two days that I have read about using the feather stitch. The other was about applique. I'm gonna have to use this stitch. Debra in VA See my quilts at http://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere |
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Mitered Binding Corners was Blind stitch for binding
You did a great job on the initial explanation, but thanks for the
clarification. -- AliceW "Pat in Virginia" wrote in message ... Talking to myself ... bad form! LOL To clarify: you want the tucks turned in opposite directions on the opposing sides of the binding. You do not want to flip the existing tuck. I hope this is more clear. PAT Pat in Virginia wrote: To get pretty mitered corners, be aware of how the tucks turn. Check it out on the sewn side, then make sure the tuck is in the OPPOSITE direction when you turn the binding. This makes for a neater and more precise miter. HTH. PAT in VA/USA . |
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