How To Bind Quilts With Backing Fabric
Image credits: WonderFil Threads via Youtube
If you like simplifying things in quilting, you should try this method on binding quilts with backing fabric from WonderFil Threads on Youtube. This method will allow you to have a professionally finished look without binding strips. It’s fast and easy, and you will surely apply this to your future quilting project. Watch the video tutorial below to learn the step-by-step process.
Materials:
- your quilt project (with 2 – 3 inches excess backing)
- rotary cutter
- ruler
- iron
- glue stick
Directions:
Step 1
You need at least 2 to 3 inches of backing fabric to be able to do this method. Now, you’ll need to square up your quilt before you can begin binding. Tuck your backing out of the way and trim the other layers with your rotary cutter. (Be careful not to cut any of your backing fabric.) When your quilt is trimmed and squared up evenly, you can now trim your backing fabric. You’ll need an inch of back fabric from the edge of your quilt. Use your ruler and trim it all the way around. Next, along one side, fold your back fabric in half so that the edge of the fabric is just touching the edge of the quilt top. (You don’t need to overlap the quilt top, just have it lined up against the edge.) Press with an iron to hold it in place. After this, fold your binding over one more time. Take a glue stick and run it across your binding, so when you fold it down again, it will help hold it in place. Press again with the iron to keep it stuck down. Now that you have your first folded edge, go ahead and fold the corner into a triangle, making a 90-degree angle. Add another dab of glue and press it down with the iron. (The corner should have a perfect mitered edge if your quilt is squared up correctly and your backing is folded evenly.) Repeat the process to the three other edges.
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Step 2
When you come to the last corner, open out the first press side so you can fold the corner 90 degrees. Dab glue in the corner and press. Re-press the side, mitering the final corner. At this point, you can choose to hand stitch down your binding, or you can machine sew it. Now, after stitching your binding, there will be a gap at the mitered corners. These can be hand stitched closed if you want to or they can be left open if the quilt isn’t going to experience too much wear and tear.
