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Pieced bias binding - lots of photos
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Posted by mary_c (My Page) on Thu, Nov 5, 09 at 18:47
| I start this process with multiple strips of fabrics in the quilt. I cut them crosswise (width of fabric). I usually use 3" strips, just because it's easy. All seams are pressed open, and you should pay attention to the color values. You will have a dark fabric showing up under a light. I only do this with like-valued fabrics.
I stagger the strips so I don't need to cut off a whole lot of fabric - just a few triangles:
Then cut the strip sets on the bias.
Cut as many strip sets as you need:
And now they are easy to join:
Try to use like-valued fabrics from your quilt. If you have drastic color or value changes, you might get color shadowing through a light fabric. These fabric are all about the same color saturation, so I didn't have any shadowing.
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RE: Pieced bias binding - lots of photos&more
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| I hit submit too soon, LOL. I cut the binding at 3", fold in half, press and sew to the top -the seams are all staggered, so no extra bulk, but that's where you need to pay attention to the colors. Then I treat it like any other binding. |
RE: Pieced bias binding - lots of photos
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| What a wonderful idea. Thanks for the tip. |
RE: Pieced bias binding - lots of photos
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| Thank you for the pics and instructions!!! |
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| I didn't know how to do that....learn something new every day. It's a great tute. Thank you for sharing it. ~Geraldine |
RE: Pieced bias binding - lots of photos
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| What a great idea!! I'm writing this one down, (yea I have a problem with remembering all those "great ideas"). ~LOL~ Thanks so much Mary for posting this... Susan |
RE: Pieced bias binding - lots of photos
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Very good tutorial Mary!! I treat it like a staight grain binding too.
I just use the cut offs as scraps.
Rosa |
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| Thanks for explaining this Mary. I look forward to using it. Lola |
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| Yes, thank you very much Mary. Not only did you show us something really neat, you took the time to show us how to do it! I would have never come up with that technique. I'd have looked at it, thought wow, that's neat but waaaaaaaaay too hard to sit at a machine and sew small strips together, LOL. I already have made several quilts where this would have been a lovely finish. Making mental notes to try this. Thanks again. |
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| Well, I'm happy all of you like it! You can, of course, make the strips much wider, but narrower just gets to be too many seams for my taste. When I do go to apply the binding to the quilt, I try to lay the binding around the edge and make sure I won't have a seam right on the corner. You can still miter the corner with a seam there, but it gets a bit bulky. |
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