When you start attaching your binding to your quilt top you want to align the raw edges.
Binding a quilt by machine mitered corner.
Sew straight through the corner of your quilt.
Begin sewing the binding.
This tutorial includes everything you need to know to add a beautiful binding to your quilt.
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Quilt binding is often the last step in finishing a quilt and an important one.
Mitered corners by machine.
Leave your needle down.
Clip off about half to a third of the corner.
Fold binding strip to form a mitered corner.
The corner should be pointing towards you.
For this example i am using the binding method where i use the backing fabric as the binding.
Stop approximately 6 away from starting point.
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And the key is to decide ahead of time before you start stitching what your seam allowance is going to be.
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When you come close to the corner of your quilt stop sewing 1 4 from the edge of the quilt.
This method is hard to do while the quilt is in the machine.
This helps reduce bulk in the corner and helps it lay flat.
Rotate your quilt 45 degrees.
Mitering binding corners can be a little bit tricky if you don t understand what to do when you reach the corner.
Every quilter probably knows several ways to sew binding to a quilt but this method will have you exclaiming ah ha.
Stitch from top outside edge with 1 2 seam allowance continue around quilt repeating the miter at the corners.
Next fold the corner into the quilt.
Start in the middle of one of the sides of your quilt 2.
Let me show you how.
Begin sewing your binding to the back of your quilt.
Starting about one third of the distance between two corners align the raw edge of one end of the binding with the raw edge of the quilt top right sides together.
Create a continuous binding strip that s about 25 inches longer than the distance around all four corners of the quilt.