Hi there in this video i'm going to show you how to bind a quilt.
So i am going to cut my strips at two and a quarter inches
so that's two and a quarter inches for my quilt binding
So i'm just going to start cutting away now i'm sure that is a way of measuring your quilt all
the way around and working out exactly how much binding you need, however i don't enjoy math and
i'm very visual so this is exactly how i do it. I literally take my quilt binding and i place it
along the side of the quilt like so and right here you can see that i've lined up two next to each
other so i now know that i just need two sections of quilt binding down one side so that's four so
there's two on each side on the left and right and it's pretty much two quilt bindings across
the section as well so it's pretty much a square quilt this so it's pretty much two two two two so
now we can get to joining these together and as you can see over there there are some overlaps
so i clearly have enough quilt binding and we will have to take some of the side sections off
and i'll show you that in a second where it's been on the loom we don't want to have them little dots
there. So this is what i mean by the little dots it's where it's been on the loom held
together on the machine and we also want to cut these little frayed sections off anyway
so you're going to take all of them off you just take them off with your rotary cutter if you are
feeling super efficient just stack them all top and one another and just cut there we go.
So the next part obviously involves a sewing machine and i always work with the babylock
soprano now obviously because we are using like a cream colored fabric i am going to want to use a
cream colored like polyester thread i have my regular j foot on and i also have some cream
colored thread in my bobbin case and also a 90 / 14 micro text needle i always use the microtex
needle it's nice and sharp and it's good for using on a quilting fabric. Okay so i want you
to pay attention to how i have my fabric because when we actually create a binding for our quilt
we always have to make the joining of that binding go on a diagonal line you don't just join it
straight across because you have way too much seam and bulkage on that seam so we always want
to make sure it goes and joins in a diagonal so you are going to have one going across like this
and you're going to go one down like this and then what you'll do is you're going to do a
diagonal stitch now i have drawn a line with my friction pen just because i want you to see
where that stitch line is going to go so you're going to have this one piece going across you're
going to put this one at this end like this and then you are going to stitch along from one corner
all the way up because once we have that stitch in place it then gets folded back like so
and it'll create like this perfect line that goes across. I want you to see the settings on my
machine i've not changed them you can tell that they've not been changed because they're
all grayed out this is just my regular stitch on stitch number three which i think is just a
regular center line straight stitch then we're just going to sew this into place
so here we go you won't have this line because you didn't really need to do it if you wanted
to pin it in place you can put it into place but i am quite confident you can take this
over to your sewing machine and stitch this down and then you will just open it up and
you can press this into place if you want to you can finger press so you can roll it
and what you can do is just get rid of this bulb and just cut it off
now i just want you to join all of your quilt bindings together just like we just did every
single one the only thing that i want you to bear in mind and you have to concentrate
if you're still new to doing this is that all of your seams are going to be on the one side
because otherwise you're going to turn it around you're going to be like oh why is this seam
on this side that's because you didn't double check so just make sure that all of your seams
are on the same side. Now guys i want you to get your iron out and turn it on and where
you see this seam here it's where you've got this big thick seam we're going to turn it
in to that seam so we're just going to fold it in half and yes it is a bit of laborious job
but on that whole strip that we've just done we're going to press it down in half
with the iron so you're going to go all the way across that quilt binding
and folding it in half so basically you're going to have the raw seams on your binding on one side
and you're going to have that folded part on another side. So this is what we've got so far
and now we get to see how to bind a quilt, you're gonna grab one of your ends and i always start at
the middle of one of my sections and you're going to want to leave a little bit i don't know let's
let's measure so i'm going to leave like 12 inches in length at one side so this happens when we come
to finishing the quilt binding now i'm going to get my wonder clips here and start clipping
now you can bind a quilt from the front of the quilt or you can bind it from the back
of the quilt it's all up to you because basically what's going to happen here is
i'm going to bind a quilt from the front so what that will mean is i'm going to take my stitches
i'm going to do it from the front of the quilt and then we basically fold this back and have it go
into the back and i'll show you how i finish off the back later on let's concentrate with how to
bind the front of this quilt so i'm going to take my wonder clips and i'm going to start clipping
and then when you get to a corner this is what you're going to do
so you can have it going across like this and then you're going to go up like so
like that so you got it all going up
and then you basically bend it back down making sure that all of your raw edges are always
facing out and then i'm just going to clip now i'm not going to clip it all the way around because i
kind of like leave all of this quilt binding all loose as i'm doing it so i just want to get it
started all clipped now i'm going to take this over to the sewing machine and i'm going to sew
the quilt binding into place. Okay so i have my quarter of an inch foot with guide on the machine
i have my rest my quilt is all the way over to the left hand side and the quilt binding is trailing
on the floor to the right hand side of me and then we're just going to start sewing the quilt binding
into place i have not changed anything about the stitches we're just going to sew it down
so this is the corner this is what we've just sewn down so what we're going to do is we're going to
pull that up like so so you have this kind of like diagonal line going across like so and then we're
going to pull it right back down making sure that the raw seams on our quilt are facing out there
should be nothing other than a raw seam facing out now you can either grab a wonder clip just to
keep that in place for you and you're going to take it to your machine you're going to start
all the way from the top and you go go all the way down the quilt attaching the quilt binding to the
quilt don't forget this is a whole series on how to make this quilt or a quilt so if you don't know
how to free motion quilt go back and have a watch of this series it's a whole series of making a
quilt and don't forget to like this video and don't forget to subscribe because it really
supports my channel when you do that . Coming to the end of this quilt i want you to leave
a really good opening between the two binding pieces because we're not simply just going to like
sew over it that would look terrible i am going to show you how i join these two pieces together
we're going to make this quilt binding look really good. This is how i will finish my quilt binding
so basically i have this open space here so i get both of my sections
and i kind of meet them halfway so i have this one here and i have this one here and i kind of fold
each of these loose sections back but then what i will do is have about an inch on each side of
these sometimes i get it right sometimes i don't get it right it's just kind of like a hit and a
miss but this is how i do it so i'm gonna grab hold of my of my scissors and i'm just gonna cut
and then i'm gonna cut like so so it's about an inch to about an inch and a half
it's always best to have more than it is less now this is a time where i will extend out my
stitch length and the reason for this is if i mess up and i do have to seam rip anything out
then i'm not having to do a little tiny stitches i can just do big stitches.
Now do you remember how we joined them them sections together when we first did our quilt
binding when we were joining it together we could do exactly the same so you can have
this one section going up we're gonna have one go into the side just make sure that you don't
have it twisted and it is flat and we're going to join that section from the top to the bottom
and what i did did actually work because i can stretch this quilt just a little bit and it
nicely snugly fits that quilt binding so what we're going to do now is we're going to stitch
that into place. Now that the quilt binder is in place on the front side we want to flip
it over so you're going to flip it over and fold it over to the back like so and then we're just
going to clip it with our wonder clip and we are going to do that all the way around the quilt
then i'll show you what we do at the corners when i get to them
so when we get to a corner don't worry you are going to see bits of thread here and
there you're going to see that it's it's nicely created this corner for you so all you have to do
is pretty much just fold it over and just work with it don't work against it and when you flip
it over just make sure that this corner like meets right at the corner it just looks nice like that.
So what i'm going to do now once this is all clipped i will sit on the bed basically
and i'll trim all of these loose threads and i will hand stitch all the way around
like closing all of this you're basically just going to take a bite out of your quilt binding
and literally attach it to the backing of your quilt that is how i like to do
my quilt binding i like to hand finish it because when i try and do it by machine i will always see
them stitches either in the top or the bottom and i don't want to do that and the the best
way of doing it for me is actually by hand stitching this quilt binding down to my quilt .
So if you don't know how to make a quilt you want to go back and watch my very first video
because i take you through all of the steps. Make sure you like this video don't forget to subscribe
and i will see you in the next video thank you very much for watching bye guys