Hi, itís Jenny, from the Missouri Star Quilt Company, and we are now entering the fourth
and final segment of, Making a Baby Quilt from Start to Finish.
So, when you get your quilt all finish quilted, which you can see ours is here, and whether
you do it by hand or on the machine, youíre going to want to trim the edges, and what
I generally do with that is Iíll lay my ruler on, and Iíll find some place where I can
actually measure against, like this line here. To make sure that I have that straight edge,
and then you trim that off, and sometimes from the material you have leftover
youíll have enough to cut your binding strips.
Now, weíve cut 2 Ωî strips from our material thatís left over, and weíre going to attach
that on, and when we do this, weíre going to put the binding completely on, but weíre
going to also use the binding tool. So, the first thing you do with that, is that youíre
going to put a pin 12î apart, this has to do with when we finish the quilt. When we
finish putting the binding on this will help us to cut our binding on a bias, so that it
lays nice.
So, our pins are 12î apart, so we will start putting our binding on from this point, and
when you do that youíre going to want to leave about a 10î tail on your strips, and
the first thing weíre going to do with these strips is weíre going to join them together,
and weíre going to join these, these are cut straight across the grain of the fabric,
the width of the fabric, and you can do that on any quilt unless you have a curve and then
you need to cut your binding strips on the bias, but when weíre going to sew these together,
what weíre going to do is we are going to lay these see here is the top of the material
is up and this is the, you put right sides together, and weíre going to put them at
an edge like this.
To make a bias edge youíre going to sew, let me get a pin here, youíre going to sew
straight across from here to here, from this corner, to that corner, and then what that
does, there we go, thatís a thick pin, what that does is itíll lay over like this. Youíll
trim this part out in here, weíll trim this out, and your seam will lay over and what
that does when you fold your bias tape together is that it will allow the seam to be distributed
over the placement of the binding rather than having all your bulk be in one area. So thatís
the only reason we do the bias, is to distribute
that bulk a little better.
So, weíre going to sew these tapes together, and then we will leave about a 10î tail,
8î-10î on here, and we will stitch this down. Now weíre stitching on the front, we
iron this in half, lay it on here, stitch on the front all the way around the quilt,
and when we get to the corners Iíll show you how to do that once weíre over at the
machine.
OK, so here we are again at the sewing machine and we have our pieces laid together so we
can make our bias binding, and weíre going to stitch that corner to corner, and Iím
just going to go straight across and eyeball that. Then what I do, I kind of chain piece
these bindings because, Iíll grab the end of my tail, and Iíll lay it up here, and
Iíll grab the end of the next tail, and lay it on top, and do the same thing. So, Iíll
end up with four little seams right next to each other, chain pieced.
OK, so now what we do is we pull these out of here and weíre going to trim them off,
just like this, that doesnít want to cut very good right there, and see
what that gives you? It gives you a piece of bias thatís straight across, itíll fold
evenly, and your seam will be distributed across 2î, rather than all in one block.
So, now we find on our quilt the two pins that are 12î apart, this will help us later
with our binding. We take our binding strip, and we fold it in half. Weíve already pressed
that in half so it has a natural fold line. Weíre going to leave about a 6î-10î tail,
I mean 8î-10î tail, and weíre going to start sewing right here at this pin, and we
put it right along the edge, and we still keep with that ºî seam.
So, weíre going to go right along there, and just stitch that binding down. Remember
weíre sewing to the front of the quilt. Weíre going to sew right down close to the corner,
stop about ºî from the corner, you want to pull your quilt out, and youíre going
to turn that whole corner, cause now youíre going the next direction, and then what weíre
going to do is take our thumb, and put it right in here, and pull this back so that
it makes a nice little fold. See, you have an even little fold up here, that will give
you the mitered corner on your binding, weíre going to slide that under the foot and sew
down.
OK, here weíre coming to the last corner, so you can see that one more time. We stop
just a little bit before, we pull our quilt out, we turn this with our thumb, weíre just
going to pull this up here, line it up with that corner, and sew straight down the other
side, and then weíre going to sew. Sew, sew, sew till we get to the pin, and then I will
show you how to use that fabulous, amazing Binding Tool! Well, this is the amazing binding
tool. I think itís about $8.95 or something like that in the shop, and once you use this
and learn how to use this, you will love it.
OK, what you do is you stick it under this edge, and then youíre going to make a mark
right here. See, where it says mark line? Youíre going to make a mark right there.
Then youíre going to open this up, and youíre going to pull this out and youíre going to
set this L, that L right there, on the mark line, but we got to get this opened a little
better. There we go, so weíre going to trim this, just like this. Using our rotary cutter,
there we go. Now the printed side always stays up so you just swivel this around like this,
put it under here, and you make a mark on here.
Now the last time we made our mark we put the L on the point. So this time weíre going
to put the mark line on the point, which is right here. We use that line, to line that
up, and then weíre going to cut this along here. There we go, let me get that. Alright,
so now we have these two fabulous tails, like this that weíre going to go to the machine
and weíre going to stitch them together, ºî right here, and you will not know where
this binding began and stopped because it is all been stitched on the bias. Itís going
to be amazing! Letís go sew it down.
OK, so weíre sewing down this seam, ºî itís helpful to pin it together while youíre
over at the table. Weíll trim these threads off, I am the worst thread
trimmer ever, and then when you open this up youíll see itís just going to fit right
in there. Letís stitch that down, and weíve got our little baby quilt ready to hand bind.
There we go, our binding is attached itís going to look beautiful. Now what weíre going
to do is weíre going to trim along here, and when you bind remember, you use the thread
that is the color of your top binding. So, say we were putting a binding on here that
was pink, or green, you would choose pink, or green, but ours is the same color as the
backing.
So, thatíll help it match, and weíre going to use probably close to a white or a light
blue thread on here, and Iíll show you that stitch in just a minute. OK, so weíre going
to finish putting our binding on this beautiful baby quilt, and I want to show you how to
make that stitch. Youíre going to tuck your knot up under the edge of this binding right
here, and youíre going to come down, and pull straight down. When you fold your binding
over, youíll use this stitch line as the gage to where you fold the binding too.
So, youíre going to pull this thread, where your thread comes out you go straight in and
you just slide it under the bottom of that fabric and you come out there right by the
fold, just about ºî. So weíll stitch along there, thatís a pretty big stitch. You want
to keep your stitches about ºî apart. Thatís really personal preference, and I go over
here, and I stitch it right to where we stopped with the sewing pretty much,
and then I just take a double stitch right there, just to tack that corner, and then
I take this edge just to, see, how when you do the corner like that it miters in the front,
and we want to miter it to the back.
So, weíre just going to fold that so that it has a nice miter to it. Maybe a little
deeper, there we go, and then Iím just going to bring my thread up and stitch right through
here, and then weíll just go ahead and go in here and come down the other side.
OK, so weíre right here at the very end of our stitch, and weíre going to knot this,
and how I do that is I just take a couple little stitches in the same spot, and then
I bring this, before I pull the thread all the way through, I bring it through the loop
like that and give it a knot, and Iíll do that a couple of times. Then, I just slide
my needle up here into the binding, and go ahead and pull and pull that knot in under
there so it doesnít show, and weíll clip that thread, and from start to finish we have
an adorable baby quilt that youíd be happy to give for any gift.
Start to Finish Baby Quilting. This is the last video. We hope you enjoyed this tutorial
from the Missouri Star Quilt Company.