How to bind a quilt with decorative stitches | Simple and easy

hi everyone today I’m going to show you
how to bind a quilt using decorative stitches this is an alternative way to
bind your quilt that you may want to give a try there is no additional
tool that you will need to do this job as long as your sewing machine comes
with the decorative stitches feature which most of them do you are good to go
to start with sew your binding strip unto the finished quilt with 3/8″
of seam allowance the width of your quilt here I recommend to be two and a
half inches wide obviously you want to make sure that the raw edges of the
binding and the raw edges of the quilt are aligned and once you’ve got to the
corner here you wanna stop about 3/8 of an inch away from the edge and then you
wanna raise your presser foot pivot your fabric at 45 degrees angle just like so
then you want to continue sewing all the way to the edge and you’re gonna end up with something
like this then you want to fold your strip up forming a 45 degrees angle fold
line and then back down just like so and obviously you’re gonna still make sure
that the raw edges of your binding and the raw edges of your quilt are aligned
then you want to continue on sewing again with 3/8 of an inch of seam
allowance and you also want to start 3/8 of an inch away from the top so you
want to do the same with all of the four corners of the quilt I forgot to mention earlier that when
you started stitching you will need to leave about 10 inches extra strip and
then about 10 inches before you approach your starting point you will need to
stop sewing and what we’re going to do next is to overlap the strips so since
our binding is 2 1/2″ wide we are going to overlap this strip
2 1/2″, so I’m going to use my ruler here to measure 2 1/2″ from the strip the one at the bottom here and then I’m going to
overlap the other strip and from that point I’m just going to use my scissor
and cut this now you want to turn your binding piece
around and open that fold line all right just like so then you want to draw a 45
degrees angle line from this upper corner so you want to lay your ruler at
the 45 degrees angle just like so and then go ahead and draw a straight line
on that angle now turn your other binding strip around as well just like
so open that up let me show you one more time so it looks like it’s twisted all
right just like so now you wanna take the other one the one with the mark then
you wanna cross these strips right side together so the right side is touching
each other and then take a pin and pin that on the
top corner all right now you can assess this a little bit you turned it back to
the line and see if it’s gonna lay flat all right I think it’s good because
sometimes it got twisted there if you don’t cross it in the right angle all
right now you want to go ahead and sew on the line and once you’ve done
sewing this you want to go ahead and trim off the extra fabric all right now that you’ve done joining
your binding strips as you can see here it’s now gonna lay flat without any bulk
you can go ahead and finish sewing this now we’re ready to finish this binding
so you want to start off from the center somewhere on the side and fold the strip
towards the wrong side just like so and then you want to go over to your sewing
machine obviously you want to set up your decorative stitching doesn’t matter
which one you may want to do a swatch assessment just to see which one you
like the best the stitching that I’m using it’s kind of look like scallop I’m
not sure what is the name of it but it comes with my sewing machine so I’m
using the left leg of my walking foot here as the gauge so I position it right
in between the quilt and the binding just like so it’s just like when you do
stitch in the ditch so you may want to do a little bit of experiment to see
which positioning will work the best since it may differ depending on the
style of the stitching that you choose and your machine as well
I also fold my binding as I go but if you wish to you can also pin this
beforehand or use binding clips now as you are approaching the corner
you want to pause a little bit and then take the edge of your quilt and then you want to fold this
up fold this forming the mitered corner just like so secure that in place with
your binding clip then you want to continue on stitching and as you get
really close to the corner you want to remove the binding clip and put that on
the other side just like so and you may want to use your finger to hold on to
the fold and then you’re gonna continue stitching slowly until you get to the
edge to where the fold line is then you want to stop there then pivot your
fabric just like so so if my camera is kind of shaky it’s because I’m moving
this as I’m pivoting the fabric because it’s sitting right on top of the quilt
so apologize for that alright so once you’ve pivoted your fabric now go ahead
and continue stitching so you want to do the same thing to all four corners of
your quilt and that’s pretty much it guys so I think this is my favorite
method of binding quilt it is so simple yet the result is just as lovely and
that’s all I have for you today guys I hope you find this tutorial helpful in
any way leave me a comment down below if you have any question thumbs up if you like
this tutorial and I shall see you next time with another sewing video goodbye