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Binding a quilt used to be the thing I hated most in life. It was difficult for me, I didn't understand the mechanics of it, and, most of all, I hated the end part. (read more)

My binding never ended seamlessly, you could always tell exactly where I'd tried to put it all together, and it was just an incredibly frustrating experience. More frustrating because I was done with my quilt, I was ready for it to look great, but I was ending on a BLAT, instead of a high note.

Don't get me wrong, I tried to do it different ways, but no matter what type of tutorial I watched or read, nothing really clicked.

Until I found this method.

​It's really so simple, and that's why I'm so excited to share it with you. 

I've broken it down into 8 steps to help you follow along, and I've made a video. 

If you want to watch the video, here it is below. If you'd like to see the step by step pictures, keep scrolling, I'll walk you through it.

Before you do anything else, be sure you've got about 8"-10" of binding gap to mess with, you're going to need the room. This just needs to be blank space on your quilt you have not yet bound, between the two pieces of binding you are going to join.

STEP 1: Measure the width of your quilt binding before you iron (or do anything else) to it. I like to cut my bindings to 3 inches, it helps me keep everything neat, without tugging. 

Whatever you cut your width to, measure that and write it down, or stick it in your head.

STEP 2: In the gap between where you have not yet sewed your binding down, place a pin where you'd like your binding to meet up. This needs to be a spot that allows a goodly amount of overlap from each side of your binding. Meaning, don't choose a place that you have to use all of your binding on either side to get there. You need play, slack, etc. 

STEP 3: Place a ruler on the pin you stuck into your quilt. Make sure you use the 0" mark, since you're going to be counting forward.  Whatever your binding measurement was, divide that by 2 (in half). So, my binding is 3 inches, therefore the measurement I need is 1.5 inches. 

Whatever your measurement is, lay your binding flat on your quilt, then measure that amount from the pin TOWARD the gap you haven't yet bound. Make a mark on your binding. 

So for me, this would be a mark on my binding that is 1.5 inches from the pin.

STEP 4: Do the same thing to the other binding. Lay it down, flush with your quilt edge, then measure away from the pin half the width of your binding. Mark the binding again.

Trim both bindings on the marks you just made.

STEP 5: Lay the trim binding edges together, right sides (front sides) facing each other. Pretend you're making a capital letter L, or a right angle, that is how you want them together. DO NOT lay them together so they're just a continuation of your binding width, they MUST be at that right angle to one another. 

​Pin them in place, and get ready to sew.

STEP 6: Sew your binding right angle together, corner to corner, with the outside of the right angle on top and the inside of the right angle on the bottom.

STEP 7: Trim your binding about 1/4" above your stitch line. Finger press it open or iron it open, whatever you prefer. 

STEP 8: Fold the binding into the ironed shape you made when you first ironed your binding closed.

If you'd like to see a step by step video tutorial of my entire binding process, check out this video. It starts from my binding being nothing but cloth, and goes all the way to a finished and bound quilt. 

Binding really used to be the bane of my quilting existence, but once I got good at it, things just got to be so much more fun and enjoyable. 

I really hope this video has helped you out, and of course if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!

Ty