Quilt binding tutorial Part 2

Now that you have your binding all sewn to your quilt, we can move this to the living room, waiting room, or just anywhere you have to sit for a while becaue this part is sewn by hand.

Yes I know if you could do it on the machine it would be so much faster. But this really will Look better and seem more "professional" and not sloppy or "slacker-ish"


Something I have found that Really helps are these, Kiddie snap hair barrettes. (yes this tidbit came from my sister as well) they hold everything in place. if you dont ahve daughters that have grown out of using them like I have, then you can get them at Joannes or even hobby lobby if you are lucky enough to have one close. if you dont have one close you can check walmart if anything you can get actual barrettes, it may cost a bit more but when you figure a drive to get to the other stores that extra buck goes into your gas tank or into the barrettes right?


So what we are going to do is fold your binding over to the back side and clip it with your barrette. Do this right along the side.


Now we are going to do a "blind hem stitch" (thank you Suzie for teaching me this!) I used to do a whip stitch and it looked just awful! and took forever!

Blind hem stitch goes like this....

start off by catching both the quilt and the binding.

"skip over" some of the material by running your needle THROUGH the fold in the binding so the thread is inside. about 1/4 inch. Where you needle comes out, make a tiny stitch just like your first one where you catch the quilt and the binding.

You may find it easier to have your thread run through your quilt instead of your binding.

This is fine as well, but a word of caution! if you go THROUGH to the other side it will show on the FRONT! so be very careful NOT to do it this way!



Now at a corner, that pain in the but corner miter I made you do? Here is where it pays off!

you can see the corner is going to want to "fold" into a corner.

Tack it down with those tiny stitches.
Continue with your blind hem stitch around

When you are done, or you need to get a new peice of thread, make several small stitches to "lock" it then bury your thread inside the quilt. See how far my needle point is to the center?

See now its all done. Part 2 only took me 2 1/2 hours of steady sewing Didn't this go faster than you thought?

Now that its done that's a UFO done, you know how to do it too, and Project Linus gets another blanket. I was just told today our local hospital is accepting Project Linus blankets as well! so my blanket will go to someone that lives right here in my community!