Hi Guys I'm Cassie from Faodail Creation and I upload videos every
single Wednesday now it's either on how to use your sewing machine or simple sewing tips
and tricks this week's video is all about binding now I'm going to show you
how to make the binding, how to attach the binding and also how to finish off
the binding. So just to let you know you can purchase binding in stores that's
already done for you however I think their a little bit too lightweight and
personally I prefer a thicker binding because it's less forgiving I'm going to
compare these two together so this was the back in fabric on one of my quilts
that I did and it's a much thinner fabric and it just doesn't give off a
very nice overall look however when I use this fabric which is much thicker it
gives off a nice clean finished look so I'm going to create this video in three
different parts for you this is so when you get to the next step of the binding
it's going to be easy for you to find the video and work from that particular
stage rather than me doing the whole video and you are in so fast-forward
through it. So I want you to see the principle of how this is done so this
isn't a how to on how to make any thing in particular this is just to show you
how to put the binding on. So I've been getting increasingly frustrated with how
to create binding on things and just recently at one of my friends who is an
avid quilter came around and showed me her technique and I want to pass that
down to you because I truly believe that everybody should know the basics and
shouldn't have to pay in order to know that information. The next thing I'm
going to talk to you about is going to be basically personal preference I cut
my binding out at two and a half inches some people like a thinner binding so
maybe two and a quarter but you can't go too thin because you need to have an
overlap when you're making your binding so this right here is a piece of fabric
from the store and your best to do it off the yardage and not off any of your
scraps just because you don't want to have to keep on and joining them seams
together all the time so I'm gonna cut this down to two and a
half inches if you want something thinner than that you can do at you in a
quarter like I said so I'm gonna go ahead and cut a second one of these
because I think two should be enough for my project but if you're making like a
full size quilt you probably need a fair few so here's our two pieces right here
and don't forget just to cut off them selvage bits at the end just so you
are starting off with the actual fabric this is how we're going to join these two
pieces together so you're gonna have one going across just like this right side
up and then you're going to get your second one and it's gonna go right side
down so the two pieces of fabric are facing each other right sides together
so we're now going to take these two pieces over to the sewing machine but
before we do is it depends on how confident you are you can take it
straight over to machine and eyeball a or if you want just make a line that
goes from Center to Center like so you want to be hitting it right in the
corner and right in the corner now the reason I say this is because look what's
gonna happen now if I just put my ruler here and you fold this back it's going
to be connected to the other side of the fabric properly if you're not confident
with these just being free just flapping about
Just pin your binding in place while you just run this through your
sewing machine so all I'm gonna do here is just follow this line all the way down
if your a little bit off don't lose sleep over it's fine so when we open our
seam up it gives this lovely a finished look but we're not gonna stop that we're
going to cut this bit off and we're going to press this in place to give it an even
more better look. Now we're at the ironing board and I'm just going to clip a
little bit of this off and probably just going to leave like a quarter of an inch or
so it's totally up to you but I just want to tidy this up
it just helps reduce that bulk then I'm just gonna open it up and I'm going to
press it down right along the center like so and I'm just going to do it on the
front here too and it just looks just neater like this so to create this
binding now we're gonna fold this over in half so you this is like the right
side here and we're going to go back to our iron and we're gonna press it all
the way along so I'm back at my ironing board here and we're just going to press
this down like so and we're going to go all the way down
now guys what's your experience of making binding I would love to know in
the comments because like I said I had been struggling a long time in order to
get this binding a hundred percent correct because I have a store and I
don't want to put products in my store if I just can't do them properly so I'm
so excited that I now do this so let me know your biggest
pet peeve of creating binding and I will try and answer the questions
so that was part 1 of making the binding and here it all is in its glory in part
2 I'm going to show you how to put this binding onto your project I've linked
part two in this video so it should be coming up shortly but don't forget to
hit that subscribe button so you don't miss seeing me next week thank you so
much for watching guys bye