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I've read that some continuous binding is not truly cut on the bias. I tried it once, with a fat quarter for a wall hanging, and did not care much for that technique. You seem to end up with several horizontal seams (as well as the traditional angled joins) which are kind of bulky. For some reason my binding was very jagged on the cut side. I will stick to the traditional method.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kgrammiecaz
http://quiltville.com/pdf/cuttingbias.pdf
I just learned to do bias binding and one of the seams ended right at a mitered corner. It was a mess trying to get the corner to lay flat. I machine sew the binding and the sewing machine wasn't happy about going over all of those layers plus it created ugly stitching on the back. That said, the bias binding was a breeze to put on since it was a tree skirt and was hexigon shaped with an inside circle. I just did not like all of the joined seams.
I always attach my binding to my quilt first with bobby pins, folding my miters as I go. This way I can control where my seams fall in relation to my corners. I can also trim the binding (where the join is -- leaving my tails) and bring it to my sewing machine. This way I do not have an unruly length of excess binding fighting me while I start sewing it onto the quilt. I remove the bobby pins as I sew on the binding. When I do get to a corner, I usually have to remove several bobby past the corner to give myself enough slack to refold the miter.
Of course, if you have a lot of corners on an odd shaped quilt, it probably would be more challenging to adjust the seams vs corners.
Oleg, that is a great idea! I'm going to buy some bobby pins!