Quote Originally Posted by Txgrandma View Post
Love the table runner, hope my first one comes out that well. We are always our own worst critic I think. Noone else will notice the imperfections, and I've always been told that those are what makes something homemade even more special. I haven't came to the binding part of the tutorials but I've always been told that using fabric cut on the bias was what you needed for the binding. Now I'm hearing about using fabric cut on the straight grain. I'm confused, could someone clear this up for me.
There is no need to make a bias binding if you are not binding anything curved. Cutting your binding on the cross grain (the width of the fabric) gives you enough stretch to do your mitered corners and that is all you need. I've only done bias binding one time in my 20 years of quilting, and that was for a double wedding ring table runner with lots of curves.

Hope this helps.