Monday, July 11, 2005

This week's insanity

So not only am I hand-sewing down the binding on the gift quilt, I'm doing a tiny bit of hand-quilting on it. I think that makes me officially crazy.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

how do you usually sew down the bindings? i came up with a cheater/machine way on the quilt i finished recently, but i have been putting off binding this last one because i was planning to do it "right" and slipstitch the back down...but i'd love to hear another option!!

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 7:22:00 AM
Mel said...

Sewing the binding to the front and slipstitching it on the back is what I do. I don't use bias binding, though, just the straight kind. I've started cutting the ends of the strips at a 45-degree angle lately, which is a good bit more trouble to sew together but gives really nice results. I keep saying I'm going to start doing some of my bindings the "cheater" way, but I haven't so far.

It's kind of odd that I do this when I pretty much compulsively avoid any other kind of hand-sewing, but that's what I do. Don't ask me why.

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 10:25:00 PM

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