A faced binding neatly and securely finishes off straight quilt edges, but does not show on the front of the quilt at all. Front Of The Quilt. Go to sarahannsmith.com and click on the Blog link. Have been quilting on and off for 10 years. Thanks for the chance to win. The facing method allows you to avoid mitering every corner. anne. Hi.Heather, Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Happy New Year. Happy day! I love the patterns, and would love to win one. (rather than a Roast Beef or the like). I hope you'll stop by often to see what's happening in my little world! Place clips to hold everything in place. Joel’s family goes for a different kind of competition, always involving some sort of cards, preferably Rook. Thanks for a great tutorial and a fun giveaway! I struggle with regular binding so hopefully I have more success with odd angles. Great tutorial! Thanks. Happy New Year, we don’t have a Pancake tradition, but it sounds like it would be a good one. I have no idea now many families have this tradition, but both my family and Joel’s both celebrate with lots of pancakes. Wow, I love it. I love your work! You are such a talented quilter….I love your tablerunners as well as all of your other projects! Post was not sent - check your email addresses! I don’t expect to win anything, as I am too far away in Scotland.Just wanted to say I love your blog. I have long been frustrated by those angles and now I am anxious to get a quilt together to add this new technique to my arsonel. Great tutorial…I’ve made lots of runners with angles like this and have just sort of been “winging” it…good to know the exact directions…I’ve had the corners turn out every way…and now know why! Thanks for the tutorial. Oct 20, 2020 - Quilt borders, bindings, edges, and backings. And the giveaway! This technique is great for quilts pieced out of large hexagons. What a great teacher you are and love the visuals as always! It allows you to take the quilting all the way to the edge, can add a nice professional and more artful looking finish, (especially to a smaller quilt) and I also find quilts seem to hang better and flatter with this method. I have asked quilt shop owners how to do this as it is common on tablerunner patterns but they all give different answers. I can’t wait to give it a try. Also liked that you included what corners should not look like. It’s sewn in place. After all, I assume most of you come here to learn something about quilting anyways. Good for quilts that will be used lightly and washed infrequently. I have struggled with the binding on a couple of projects with these angles. Now I DO want to try it. I’ll be sharing a link back on my blog. Thank you for sharing! Thanks for counting me in. See more ideas about quilt border, quilts, quilt patterns. My family has been known to have contests to see who can eat the most pancakes. You always have such neat things on your blog. As many have already commented, your examples are all so beautiful! I have been doing table runners with these types of corners for a couple of years and they always turned out wrong. Yours are beautiful! Had a great day. Learn techniques for crafting a hanging sleeve, quilt binding corners with ease, plus using materials such as sheers, backing fabric, and yarn for binding quilt edges. Thank you for posting the tutorials with so many helpful photos. The folded edge should be facing in toward the quilt top. You did a excellent job of showing the correct and incorrect way to do that type of binding Heather. Still lots more to bind so better late than never.lol Learning a new technique is definitely a great reason!! I’m wanting to try and get into something other than square corners soon. They are great. Here’s the pattern front, which gives you a better idea of the shape of quilt we will be binding (see the lower right corner). 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