Now to sew on the binding
Now that the sleeve is pinned onto
the back of the quilt and our binding
is made, we can sew it onto the quilt.
Working from the front, align all of the
raw edges of the quilt and binding and
sew the binding to all four edges of the
quilt.
For most of my previous projects, I
stitched the binding to the back of the
quilts using a decorative machine stitch.
This is an easy and fast way to get a
binding sewn on, and is especially good
for quilts that will be washed a lot (such
as baby quilts). But, this quilt will only be
hung on the wall and I want to stitch the
back of the binding by hand. In the past
I have always used cotton thread that
I’ve matched to the color of the binding.
But, for this project, I’m going to try using
DecoBob for the hand stitching. I try
to use a double strand of thread when
stitching down binding, just to make it
that much stronger, so I’m going to cut
off a long piece of DecoBob and knot
the two ends together after threading
my needle.
Hand stitching the back of the binding
Time to watch a movie
Lots of people hate sewing on bindings, but I also know many people who
absolutely love it – I have to say I’m
somewhere in the middle on this topic.
It’s a nice, thoughtless activity to do
while watching a good show on TV. So, I
put on a good movie to watch with my
family and got my hand stitching done.
After finishing the binding, I also stitched
down the folded edge of the hanging
sleeve.
The finished product
I’m happy to say that my second UFO
is now finished! Thanks to WonderFil, I
was able to finish my peony quilt using
all of the threads left over from previous
projects. Sewing the binding and making
a hanging sleeve with DecoBob gave
me great results and I’ll use my DecoBob
threads for these jobs over and over
again. z
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