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This week has been all about bindings, from the first steps of basic binding to adding a flange to the binding. None of the techniques used this week were difficult, and today’s demonstration will be just as easy as the others. Today, I’ll add a binding to a quilt that…

Welcome to day four of binding techniques. Yesterday’s technique showed you how to prepare and sew a two-color binding to a quilt, where one color of the binding fabric is visible on the front of the quilt and another color fabric is visible on the back. Again today, I’ll use…

Welcome to day three of binding techniques! On Monday, I covered the basic steps for calculating the yardage needed to put together a long binding strip to attach to a quilt’s edges. I also demonstrated a machine sewing technique for attaching the binding strip to the quilt edge. Tuesday was…

For most of my life, I have experienced back to school. As a little kid, it meant that my mom would be sewing me a new dress, often matching my big sister’s until I think she probably objected…strongly. Then my experience changed to taking my summer job money and buying…

Hello! Yesterday I demonstrated the first steps in adding a binding to a quilt. Today will be all about how to finish attaching the binding to the quilt either by hand or by machine. I’ll demonstrate these methods using the following two quilts. Before I begin today’s post, I’d like…