The stitch is just an elongated S. It is one of the basic stitches on my bernina and I just increase the stitch length and practice on scrap fabric until I get it how I want it. Then you just carefully sew along the edge...
If you did a good job of folding your binding over the edge in equal amounts, then when you flip it over you will have also sewn along the edge of the front side...
However, if you have a spot that you accidently pulled the binding fabric too tight or too loose, you will run away from the edge on the front (because you were following the wonky edge on the back). Now, I don't pin or clip my binding in any way, I just fold it and stitch (gasp!), so if you are a methodic pinner or clipper you probably won't run into this problem. This was the first time I ever used this method, and it is a pretty big quilt, so I have to assume it would be a lot easier with some practice and especially on much smaller baby quilts (where I think machine sewn binding makes the most sense). This was the wonkiest spot I had, and I can live with it. I'm not one for pointing out imperfections, but didn't want you all to think this was some magic perfect technique :). Please disregard the cat hair in the close ups.
If anyone has any other questions I will be happy to answer in the comments!
4 comments:
Fantastic approach to machine binding.
I have always hand stitched the back of my binding because I could never get the machine binding to look right on both sides.
But this method looks like it was meant to be ... back and front.
I'll be trying this for sure.
Thanks!!!
Andi :-)
corners? how did you manage corners with that! usually i machine my binding on the front and handstitch to back. when i do all machine i sew on back and machine on top...interesting to see how you do it!
Wow. That's pretty cool. I'm still intimidated by finished quilts, and didn't even know you could machine sew the entire binding on. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much! this is very helpful.
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