Infrastructure Week 12 - Binding

As you put the finishing touches on your Infrastructure quilt,  or if your plugging along at your own comfortable pace, I hope you've enjoyed the quilt along and gleaned some new tips and tricks along the way.

Infrastructure Quilt

This week we will be talking about binding.  Christa has an amazing machine binding video tutorial over on her blog.  When we began the quilt along the plan was for Christa to hand bind and for me to machine bind the quilt but in the course of making out quilts it ended up the exact opposite.  So let me get into talking bindings!

60+ Quilts - 60+ Bindings

I like to use 2 1/2" strips when binding and typically sew on the binding with a 3/8''  seam allowance.  This mean, whenever possible, I leave a little, very little, extra batting around the edge of the my quilt when squaring it up, to keep all those points around the edges intact.  After the binding is attached to the front of the quilt I will iron the binding back over itself all around the quilt.  Then I flip the quilt over and iron the bind down on the back.  This does two things, it keeps the binding in place better when sewing and it gives me a chance to iron my corners so that the miter lines up.

More Quilts - More Bindings

After I press the binding I use wonder clips every 4 inches or so to hold the binding in place.  After all the prep work is down it's time to hand sew.  I really enjoying taking a moment to sit down and hand sew.  It's a great personal touch on your quilt.  There have been times when I had to bind 3 quilts right in a row and even though I'm carefully and have a thimble handy for any extra push the needle might need about the third quilt is when my fingers are telling me to machine bind, but hey isn't that what callouses are for?

Infrastructure binding

While I'm binding I also take the time to catch any threads that I missed and still need snipped.  It feels so good adding those final few stitches to your quilt and laying it out on the floor to see the whole quilt completely finished for the first time!

GIVEAWAY TIME! Aurifil Thread partnering with Christa and I again this week and donating an 2 cones of their Forty3 thread for our giveaway.  I love their Forty3, 40wt-3ply, thread and would recommend it to everyone.  They will be giving away two of my favorite colors, dove and light beige.

Aurifil Thread

Leaving a comment below is the only way to be eligible to win.  Comments made Monday through Friday will be entered into a random drawing so please be sure to leave your name and email address where you can be contact if you win. Comments without contact information will not be eligible for prize(s). The winner will be announced the following Monday in our weekly quilt along post.

 

 

 

 

**CONGRATULATIONS** to Christi for being our week 11 winner!! 

 

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"As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving." Col 2:6-7