The Ultimate Quilt Binding Tutorial - YouTube
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This is great! Especially the part where she show how to attach the ends of the binding! Bookmark this one, folks!
Yes, and so much better than that horrible binding tool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jean Sewing Machine
Great tutorial and perfect timing for me! I finished quilting my first large quilt (100" x 100") on my small sewing machine yesterday afternoon. Today I was going to trawl the internet for tutorials on how to bind it!
Well done Jenny - another really helpful tutorial!
What amazes me is the length of the stitches: I normally make them much smaller... maybe that is why it takes me sooooooooooo much time to bind even baby quilts.
Love the binding ending part, no more binding tool for me! Hoorah!!!
I gave my binding tool away after much frustration, and found Jenny's way to work much better!
Lin
My binding tool is strictly going to be for friendship braid quilts now. I still won't hand bind though.
I don't like the binding tool. I tried it once but my method and Jenny's works so much better!
This is the way I bind all my quilts etc. It is the way my grandmother showed me years ago. We won't say how many years :). Plus I find it a lot easier then the binding tool.
Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?
I just watched three minutes of this post and learned something I'll use for the rest of my life...
I recently made about a mile of black binding out of 1.5 yards of fabric. I thought I was being smart as I am making some coordinating items for my home and they will all have black binding. I cut my strips and sewed them together like I always do. I don't know what I was thinking, probably just tired, because I decided since the fabric didn't have a "right" or "wrong" side I could just sew them and not worry about which way was correct. Boy did I feel dumb when I discovered that about every other strip was sewn wrong! Since I had so much and wasn't worrying about running out of fabric, I just cut off the offending seams and sewed them back correctly. Never again will I sew my strips together without ironing them first. YAY JENNY!!!
I'm going to go watch the rest of the video now so I can see what you folks are talking about when you say you are going to toss your binding tool. I have a love/hate relationship with mine now.
I used to use the binding tool but on one of my quilt retreats someone showed me this way of doing it, so much easier and the only thing I have to remember is the width I cut my binding. I works perfectly every time.
This is such a great tut. Don't you just LOVE Jenny?! I would like to add one hint to her tutorial. When you get to the end and are putting the two strips together, cut off a 3" piece from the end of the longer strip and use the 2 1/2" side (or whatever width you use for binding) as your 'ruler' for cutting the binding. I know this sounds convoluted, but it works every time. I used to actually cut off a piece to measure with, but now I just fold it back perpendicular to itself as a measure.
I loved her suggestion for pressing the strips before sewing. More than once I have sewed solid or batiks wrong part of the way down the binding!! Don't ask me about a batik jelly roll race, either. Let's just say I did a lot of picking--and it wasn't my nose!!!!
This tutorial really. Was the ultimate binding tutorial.... I especially loved ....and will pass on.... The joining tip. I can't wait to try it. It. Looks so easy, and stress free....that's for me!
Sandy
I saw a tut on doing this before and really like this one so much better. The other one wasn't a video. So my dumb question of the day is how the math works out.
So you cut your binding 2 1/2'' and at the end over lap 2 1/2 ''. Let's say it was 3''. This still works and why? It's going to bug me the rest of the day. lol
Believe me - I LOVE Jenny, she is my favorite teacher on all things quilting - except for maybe this binding. LOL. This tutorial is a big step up from using that binding tool in the first one - but it still seems a little more complicated than this other tutorial I found. Just the actual sewing part I guess - having to get those edges lined up again on the 45 and what not.
This tutorial is probably the way I'm going to bind quilts - if the day ever gets here that I have a quilt to bind! The relevent parts are at the 3 minute mark (starting to attach the binding) and the 4:55 minute mark (ending the binding) if you don't care to watch the whole video.
How to Bind a Quilt - 6 Simple Steps - YouTube
The other steps are basically the same - except she presses her seams open to help them lay flat.
I love some of the tools they use in that tutorial! I wish they told you where you can pick them up. That ruler that she cut all the strips in one go and that 45 degree angle guide for the machine. I think I still like the MSQC way of ending. I'm not so sure I like that little open pocket that happens when you just tuck the end in. And duh about leaving a 1/4" of batting and backing. I'll have to start doing that.
Whatever the width of your binding strip (flat) is, that is the amount you leave one piece longer than the other. I cannot explain why, but it works every time. If your binding is 4 inches wide (why?) you would leave 4 inches longer on one end than the other; if it is 2 inches wide, you cut the one side 2 inches longer than the other. Maybe one of those geometry wizards out there can explain why it works. I don't have the gray matter to figure it out--I just know it works. AND, I'm glad!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hulamoon
I actually got that Shape Cut Pro at Joann's! I used it for the strip/charm swap that I was in! It is great when you know you need multiple strips of the same size. Now the 45 degree angle guide - I looked on their website (heirloomcreations.net) but I couldn't find it there so...not sure about that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Longstocking
Also - not sure if I'm understanding what you mean about the little open pocket. Wouldn't that get taken care of when you flip the binding to the other side and complete the stitching? I don't know - guess I'll find out when I get there. Someday. Wow, binding. The last step to a completely quilt. Wonder what that is like. LOL
I've been finishing my binding ends like this for a couple years now. That binding tool is a PITA.
I was watching the tutorial and I hear my hubby laughing and saying under his breath "Squeezy things" he had heard Jenny trying to thing of clamps.
That binding tool make me curse in French and English. This is much easier indeed. Thank you.
This was great. Makes it easier when you visually see it done. Thanks Jenny!!!
"Squeeze things", indeed! So funny... Some online instructors are just so formal, and look as if they are reading a script... All mistakes and verbal flubs are edited out.... One in particular, is just so chirpy that I want to ...well...you know..... And another well known instructor has a cheery smile that just drives me crazy. These people are not REAL. Jenny and her girls are real. Jenny, in particular, is very warm.... She is genuine, and that counts for a lot..... One of the reasons Jenny is so popular, is that she is able to connect with her viewers..... We all feel a kinship with her.... We know she truly enjoys teaching us new things.
I watch some of the videos multiple times, and learn something each time. So, thanks Jenny, and the MSQC, for all you do. You are greatly appreciated.
Sandy from Cincinnati
Great video.......will be doing another binding soon so this will help. Thanks Jenny and the gang as MSQC!
That is how I do it! - except for the little diagonal stitches when you stop 1/4" before the corner - must remember that
I just finished watching it and I've seen this done on other videos but Jenny took it to a new level of learning from the start of creating your binding to finishing with hand sewing. Nice job she did.
I have tried the "pocket method" and I always end up with one part sticking up more than the other...much prefer Jenny's latest method although I also do fine with the binding tool as well...will be trying the method Jenny showed on the latest tutorial to end my binding and see how that works...Quote:
Originally Posted by VickiJ
I purchased "The Angler" at a local LQS for $10 a couple of weeks ago....made by New Leaf I believe...let me double check that for you - It is called "Clearly Perfect Angles" by New Leaf Stitches....website is newleafstitches.com...try there if unavailable at your local LQS. Hope this helps everyone!
This is how I was taught when I first started, tip, the little piece you slice off the end you can fold out and use to measure your 2 1/2 " or whatever your width is, don't have to have a ruler that way.
So glad I watched that! Thanks. I have been doing pretty good, but am thrilled to learn the trick at the end. Don't we all just love Jenny?
This is what I do too. It's a great tip. You don't have to go running for a ruler and it's accurate.Quote:
Originally Posted by NanaB
This is exactly the way I do mine. I think she shows this on one of her tutes but with the binding tool. Got one of those but can never get it to work properly so I just stick to this method. Never have had a problem doing it this way and it always looks so neat and tidy.
I tried Jenny's method of joining the binding ends of a small quilt yesterday....OK, it is a little quilt for one of my two Chihuahuas... and it WORKED! For the first time, you cannot tell where the binding begins or ends.... I'm thrilled.... Until now, I have always dreaded joining the binding ends, because I knew it would be ugly.... The binding tool confuses me....
I simply used a piece of cut off binding to measure the 2.5in..... I don't know how this works, but am so glad it does!
this is the way I was taught to join. The binding tool makes it so complicated.
I don't do "complicated" very well.... So, I was so happy to see this tutorial! Jenny really is awesome... She is a natural teacher, and that's pretty rare.
Well now, I am a really happy camper. I will use my binding tool and my mini binding tool for friendship braids and keep it simple with this neat trick. I too had to read and reread, and think about it somemore etc. before I could bring myself to make the cuts and still ended up doing it wrong more than once with those binding tools. Loved that tutorial from start to finish.
Wow, lots of binding tool bashing going on here. I LOVE my binding tool! And it worked perfectly the first time. Of course, I watched Jenny's tutorial about a hundred times :)
This is the method that I was taught at a LQS store. I did buy one product that I love for making these, though. I have the Fons & Porter square binding tool - it has the angle, and is marked every 1/4" to help with joining ends.