I wanted to show you how using triangles on a folded over binding came out for me. As mentioned in an earlier post, I was curious as to how to do it after Patty sent me a picture. With help from her, Brenda, and friends in a local art quilt group (I'll tell you about them later), I was able to finish this.
It actually turned out very nicely, ignore the pucker in the picture, it doesn't really look like that. Here's how I did it:
First I cut strips and squares out of fabric and laid the folded over squares on the corners of my little quilt on the right side.
The strips were cut just short of the length of the sides and sewed on top of the triangles.
When all four sides were stitched down, I reinforced and trimmed the corners so the fold over would go as easily as possible. Actually, I folded over the sides, stitched them down, and last folded over the triangles stitching in place as a last step. A warm iron and fabric manipulation helped tame this unruly biased edge.
I'm not sure which technique I like the best; using triangles or just using four strips. Since it's just seen from the back, it matters only to me. I'll decide with more work.
It actually turned out very nicely, ignore the pucker in the picture, it doesn't really look like that. Here's how I did it:
First I cut strips and squares out of fabric and laid the folded over squares on the corners of my little quilt on the right side.
The strips were cut just short of the length of the sides and sewed on top of the triangles.
When all four sides were stitched down, I reinforced and trimmed the corners so the fold over would go as easily as possible. Actually, I folded over the sides, stitched them down, and last folded over the triangles stitching in place as a last step. A warm iron and fabric manipulation helped tame this unruly biased edge.
I'm not sure which technique I like the best; using triangles or just using four strips. Since it's just seen from the back, it matters only to me. I'll decide with more work.
5 comments:
Thanks for posting pictures to illustrate this technique. It is MUCH clearer than the garbled notesI sent you!
Thanks for posting this. I love it. I don't do bindings much, but when I do it is nice to know of cool way to finish the corners.
I love this corner!! Much better than butting the ends and having lots of bulk - thanks for the photos!
I'm definitely going to give this a try - looks great.
I am a bit puzzled - this method seems to add bulk imho - for one of the most trouble free bindings in existence I don't think you can go past what Mimi Deitrich in her boook "Happy Endings" calls French Binding (it was republishid within the last few years) The binding strips are cut on the straight and joined into one continuous strip at the start, folded in half, and then machine stitched to the front - at the corners folded in such a way as to produce an envelope corner which folds the other way when the whole thing is folded over to the back. Easily slip stitched into place - and the width of the stips and therefore the width of the binding, can be altered from very thin to any width you like. I strongly recommend you get hold of that book and try it. The cover probably has a traditional looking quilt on the front, but don't let that deter you! Many of my quilts are finished this way, most recently the one I made as a commission and pics of that can be found under the march 07 archive posts entitled "Anatomy of a Commission" I can post a hand drawn diagram if you need...
I was recently at the SDA conference in Kansas City wehre the members exhibition demonstrated perhaps 50, maybe more different and interesting ways to finish 'art quilts' - edge treatments are my current focus of interest.
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