How to Put Finishing Touches in a Quilt
Hi my name is Barbara Black and I’m a professional quilt maker and teacher. Today I’m showing you how to make a quilt. Now, let’s talk about the finishing. We’re going to add and applied binding then I’ve chosen this medium tone fabric to be used as my outside border. I’ve cut border strips and for this quilts this size I need two strips that were cut two in a quarter inches wide but I got of my fabric.
To join them you want to use a diagonal scene. Allow the first piece of fabric done but the horizontal on the board and I take the second piece and I put them right side together and I join this piece vertically. Square at the corners and keeping us nice and neat use your ruler and your pencil again to draw a diagonal line from the upper left to the lower right. Just draw that pencil line and you’ll pin it just so that you can hold it and go to the sewing machine and join that thing by sticking directly on the pencil line. After you’ve sum your cut of quarter of an inch away from the scene and press it open, go back to the iron and fold the entire strip of fabric, right sides out one side together and put this entire piece of binding all in blinded long strip.
When you’re making a bed size quilt it take seven or eight strips to join them for something small like this two strips is going to do the trick. Now, we’re going to be ready to apply the binding and stitch it on to the quilt. You want to start somewhere in the middle of one of the sides and you may to leave a tail prior to six inches or so long and I’ll show you how to join that at the end.
We’ll start stitching and work you well along the coroners, I’m going to show you how you use term that corner because that seems to be an area that a lot of people one way to Chicago with this their learning quilt making. I’m stitching with that stitch length it’s a little longer about the thumb that I use for them, resume quilting and I’m going to stitch it same along about and for and inch that we’ve been using.
As I approach the corner I get ready to stop one quarter of an inch away. Put the needle down and tip it to quilt toward yourself but instead of stitching forward put the machine in reverse and stitch backwards. Take a little quilt out of the machine so that you can see what you’re’ doing, fill the remaining binding strips straight up and that will give you a quarter of an inch lighter right there in the corner.
Bring the remaining strip back down and put the fold even with the raw edges of the quilt tight, go back into the machine and start sewing again at the fold. You start again with that quarter of an inch same along. As you come to at the middle Again you want to leave a tail of about five to six inches, so you want to stop as you approach that corner.
Lay at the beginning strip down and low it flat to work where you began being with the remaining tail in and turn it back so that they dress touch each other. Using a ruler you simply measure back exactly the wit that you cut this binding originally. I cut it two in a quarter inches so I use my ruler and come over to two in a quarter inches and put a tick mark there.
You grow up you scissors hold your breath and cut that strips right there at the right peace. Now, you’re ready to open it and we’ll do that same diagonal gem we low this pieces right sides together and I’ve already gram a diagonal line on this beginning piece and I could that quite easier than it was still flat and that was before I begun stitch wide exactly on the pencil line and after I’ve sown on the pencil line I trim it at the quarter of an inch away, press the same open, fold the pieces in half and your binding will feel exactly, evenly just the way you need to be.
You go back into the machine finish sewing from this side where you ended to the beginning of the line where you stitch or you began and started and you’re completely finished the binding is applied and you’ll have a diagonal scene that is nice and fit and solve even nicely.
The last thing you have to do now is turn the binding from the front to the back. We’re going to stitch to end by hand and if you want to use it fraud color but natures your biding fabric that is closely as you can. You’re going to take smash pictures on the back and one more on the quarter of an inch long sometimes smaller and its better and you just going to take little tiny stitches from the back and to the third of the binding being careful not to go to the front you don’t want the thread to go through to the front.
We make the small stitches on the back and get the binding complete stitch all the way or on the outside edge. Now, you’ve learned how to make a quilt, thanks for watching.
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