Alternative quilt binding

How do you finish your quilts? Skinny binding? Wide binding? Ever tried a facing? Facings are common for art quilts or wall hangings but I've even seen them used on your every day couch cozy quilt! I've definitely run into quilts where putting a border binding on it just felt wrong and sometimes I've just…

I hate to bind my quilts. If you have been following me for awhile, you’ve probably heard me say this once or twice (at least!). I recently found a method to use facing on a quilt, rather than binding.

Art Quilter Robbi Joy Eklow shares her method for making a quilt facing, an alternative way to finish raw edges of a quilt.

This is not the first quilt binding tutorial that I’ve written, but this time I’m going to focus on how to make scrappy quilt binding. I get asked about this all the time! Darcy, how do you make your scrappy quilt bindings? This is how. This is how to make scrappy quilt binding. Before I go through the directions for how to make scrappy quilt binding, here are several previous quilts that have scrappy binding. This baby Carillon Quilt has several yellow fabrics in the binding. The Quiltville…

A wonderful method for starting out, and getting some experience with machine finished binding, is a Flanged Binding, also known as a faux flanged binding or piping. This Flowering Table Runner was finished with a flanged binding. After practicing the flanged binding method on many, many quilts, my confidence grew with experience. This experience enable me to acquire some helpful hints to make this method more successful. And I then moved on, eager to attempt machine sewn binding without the…

I made a doll quilt before Christmas and realized I’d never posted a tutorial on this quick and easy binding method. Since I know a lot of you are beginners…this is a really great way to dip your toes into binding a quilt. I especially love it for small things like hot pads,...Read More

As promised in my last post, here is a tutorial on how I like to face a quilt. Facing a quilt is a way to bind your quilt without havin...

A few years ago, I created a tutorial for how to sew an oversized hot pad and it’s one of my most popular videos to date — mostly because of my fuss free method of quilt binding! That tutorial teaches the quilt binding method that I’ve always used, so I really didn’t know how many people were str

by Donna Hussain An advantage of belonging to a quilt circle is that group members share their quilting skills. In the past year I have le...