When precious time, beautiful and often time expensive fabric, plus a lovely and perfect machine or hand quilted design has been applied to the quilt top, making the right quilt binding is important.
Give your quilt a new look for the binding by creating a pieced bias binding. This type of quilt binding is made by joining straight grain strips into sets then cutting the sets into strips. These strips, once sewn to the quilt, make a continuous bias strip that has the appearance of diagonal strips.
- Start by cutting varying or uniform widths of long strips on the crosswise straight grain.
- Using the ¼” seam allowance, join the strips together to create a set. Press the seams allowances open. Repeat this process to make the desired number of binding sets.
- Cut your bias strips from these binding sets in the width of your choice. For a single fold binding start with 2 ½ “or for Double Fold/ French Fold use 4½“ to create a 1” finished binding.
Pieced Bias Quilt Binding
Now let’s finish your quilt, today, with these new quilt binding techniques.