Quilt Binding Attached with a Serger

I'm going to share with you how I attach my

quilt

binding

s with my

serger

. It's definitely my favorite way now that I've started doing this and I do it with my machine set for a 4 thread overlock, you'll see here. I've already trimmed the edges of my

quilt

right along the four outer edges, you'll want to have that exactly where you want the edges to stop. I cut my quilt

binding

s two and a half inches wide and cut them down to where I have enough to go around the four outside edges of the quilt and then go ahead and allow at least 20 extra inches to be safe, it will probably be much more than enough .

I'm using my foot open. use whatever foot is best for your overlocker, this foot allows me to visually see those red lines to line up with the position of the needles, that's what they represent on my foot and I'm using a four thread overlock stitch so my needle is All the way to the left is the first needle that is going to sew what you see and that's the one I'm really worried about lining up straight because that needle is going to go right along the intersection of the fabric notice that I've placed. bring the right sides together and after it starts to come out once again from the edge, I'm going to line up that notch that I'm showing you along with the intersections of the fabrics and this will help you have a nice, precise seam.

Second way to do it: If you have the strips cut straight across the ends, you can take them and put them right sides together and you'll notice that I'm going to allow a heavy quarter inch to extend off the side edge. and the top edge and then we're going to turn the fabric sideways so you'll notice that you now have those strips extending to the left once again, we're going to use the notch on the presser foot to guide along the intersections of the fabric and A friend of mine who is also a baby educator told me this trick.

If you look at how you have the bindings laid out right now, it looks like a pair of pants that extend down both left legs, so we're going to sew that seam along the waistband, so if you can think of the scene as a waistband , that might be a good image to help you remember how to organize your quilt binding strips before placing them together now that we have all the binding sewn. We're going to take them and they need to be pressed in half with the wrong sides together. We also need to fold them on one top edge at a 45 degree angle, so you're going to take that top corner and fold it over to where it lines up. with that right edge and press when we start to place this on them on the

serger

.

We don't want to start from the beginning, but I'm going to hold it in place with my precision clips. By the way, I love these little clips and I'm going to trim a couple of places to secure them. Let's start sewing, you'll probably want to get started. I tend to start maybe about four inches down. three or four inches down, notice that I have the raw edge of the binding lined up with the raw edge of the quilt and I'm going to sew it onto the back of the quilt so that the quilt that I'm playing with right now I'm sewing my binding on a reversible quilt, but I want to attach my bindings from the back of the quilt to right sides and I'm just sewing.

I'm guiding the correct edges along my knife, it's just grazing the blade. slightly, that's why it's very important to precisely trim the outside edge of the quilt and then we're off to the races, it's going to be pretty easy, we're getting to the corner, so here I'm just showing where the corner is I'm going to grab a pin, this is my friction pin and I just want to make a 45 degree angle that lines up with the tip of your quilt bottom and I'm going to move forward, this is another reason why I'm using my open toe foot because I can see more precisely where my needles are, so I'm moving towards where my needles will stop, right where I made that mark with Aang, look how you can see it.

I'm just showing you that that's where I want to stop and I'm going to keep my needles down and I'm just going to Curt gently, I'm just going to turn the fabric at like a 45 degree angle and come out so you notice. how my stitches just came loose on one ankle and now we're going to turn our quilt, bring the binding up and down like we would traditionally do with our binding, how easy was that, okay, so let's move on. slide the quilt back under the clip under the presser foot along with the binding and I'll continue just sawing down allowing the straight edges of the binding and quilt to graze the blade of the knife very, very easily once I get it. to the next corner we're going to go ahead and also mark that angle, there's my angle.

I'll mark it at the top of the binding because that's what I can see from the top. I just sewed forward, I have the needles down. of lifting my presser foot and then just turning it a little bit, is where you get that 45 degree angle and then going up and down one more time and we'll continue that process. slide our presser foot up, slide our quilt and our binding underneath. Once again, Serge continues until we reach the corner, so we're going to repeat ourselves until we've completely encircled the quilt, but I'll go ahead and let you watch this process a few times.

Sometimes that way it can make more sense to you as we go over and over again, repetition builds a long term memory so I love any time I can watch something over and over again because it becomes something that is really comfortable for me and me. remember it better so once again we are in another corner we are going to draw that 45 degree angle just showing you my friction pin you can use any of your brand name pins that disappear this is the act, this will be the The binding will bend so that it doesn't You see that mark when we take and fold the binding again.

I'm just moving forward to where the needles will meet up to the line if you're a little off. No, don't worry too much, everything will come together, twist and emerge from that angle, bend it up and down one more time. Let's go ahead and put it back under the presser foot and work our way down until we get there. to the next angle next corner to create our angle, the serger has said that he does a good job holding your quilt. I find that my hands don't really get a workout when I do this, so it's easier on my shoulders, it's easier. in my hands, so I think I really love this method for a mat from another corner we will draw our line once again Serge up our needles they are going to find that angle that line that drawn line lift our presser foot gently pivot and Serge up, towards down and continue, you'll notice that in this little area I have a little bit of that intersection where the bindings were little ears, so whatever you want to call it, it sticks out and what's going to happen.

Be gentle with this, a serger will just clean all that up for me, so here I am getting ready to finish it all. That's why you don't start right at the beginning of your point on your angle, because we want the top binding to extend at least an inch beyond where the bottom folded area is. See just above where my clip is. You want to make sure you have at least an inch or an inch and a half that will extend below that. folded edge and then we're just going to tuck that top binding piece into the bottom piece of our binding where we started and once again I'm just going to trim it all together, you might find it necessary to just lift the presser foot up from time to time so you can adjust the binding so it's smooth every time you put all the layers together and then I'll go ahead and trim my tail and look how nice it looks it's nice and finished and when I fold it over you'll notice that the width of the binding on the back is thinner, the width of the binding on the front is a little thicker, but I still love the look of it.

I'm going to go ahead and trim any of my surgery threads on all four corners and then fold my binding and go ahead and press and place the corners to create your miter on each corner and then we're going to take it to the sewing machine and we're going to sew the Folded edge of the binding down and sew in the back stitch. You will see a little bit of the bobbin thread and usually what you can do is just match the bobbin thread to the back of your quilt because you will see it since the back of the binding is thinner than the top of the binding, so I'm going to go ahead and continue sewing the top with my straight stitch all the way to the end of the corner and you'll notice that I take my machine to where I have the pivot function on, which will stop with the needle down and the presser foot up, so if your machine has that feature I highly recommend using it as it really helps make the process easier for you and So when I turn a corner I like to turn the corner inwards , then sew back a little bit and then continue forward, which gives a little bit of extra security in each of those corners, once I've turned the corner, it's kind of Laurie's technique.

It's kind of a habit in how I do it, so I'm going to go ahead and continue up to this point and once I have a tack, I went ahead and allowed my needle to get to the opposite side of the binding there, then I'll lift, I'll go ahead, I'll take and I will turn the quilt around the miters, they are very easy to create, pin in place and press with the way the binding is

attached

, and it actually has to round out a lot of the bulk that you may feel you have to struggle when you put on binding traditionally now, if you're a quilter, it shows that you know.

I don't know what the judges will think about this, but I think. my quilts are loved for giving away and teaching other people how to make things how to quilt how to do different techniques so it's definitely something I enjoy doing I like this technique it makes it easier for me and I like the way the whole process flows so here I am finishing. I'm going to go ahead and do it again, a little back cast off to get that top stitch done again. You'll see that stitch on the back, so match the bobbin threads to the back of your quilt and now we have all four sides finished.

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