binding a quilt

Ready to quilt the Pockets Full of Blessings

It’s always so satisfying when you’ve finished a quilt top — like reaching the finish line of a long race. Today, let’s make a quilt sandwich and use some decorative machine stitches then we’ll be ready to quilt Pockets Full of Blessings wall quilt. Press the backing fabrics with lots…

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Blest be the bindings that tie this quilt together

All this week on QUILTsocial, I’ve been putting together a lovely quilt, made possible by a wonderful group of women I met in cyberspace. We’ve spent this year creating 12.5″ square quilt blocks for one another on our birthdays. Today, it all comes together with binding and a special quilt…

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The 3 Most Important Tips for Binding

Wow, it’s Friday already! The week has sure flown by and has been packed full of all kinds of tips, tricks and great tools for quilting. Today is mostly about binding and the 3 most important tips for binding. I left off yesterday with the flowers stitched down to the…

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Binding a Quilt

Today we are going to address another very grey area in the quilting world – binding a quilt. There are so many options and a lot of very confused people. I did a bit of research and was shocked to see how little information or misinformation there is about binding.…

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Do You Know How to Bind a Quilt?

Our applique shapes are all secured and look awesome with the Dazzle threads couched along the edge. I’ve never used this technique before but now that I see how easy and effective it is, I think I’ll be using it again in the near future!! So now we just need…

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