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Summary: A binding will allow you to keep your quilt and its patches together during production. Learn more about how to create your own quilt in this free video series.

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Jeanette White Jeanette White works for Piper's Quilts & Comforts, which has been in business for 11 Years. She has completed hundreds of quilts and her store was nominated ... read more

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How to Choose a Binding for a Quilt

JEANNETTE WHITE: Hi. I'm Jeannette White on behalf of Expert Village and Piper's Quilts & Comforts located in Sugarhouse. Today, we're talking about choosing a correct fabric for doing the binding on your quilt. In the last segment, we talked about polka dots and prints, and in this segment, we're going to be talking about plaids and stripes. We have unraveled our fabric off of the bulk and we've laid it on a diagonal grain and now we're going to take a ruler and simulate where the quilt would hook on. And you can see, for the generous quarter of an inch that is showing, this plaid is absolutely wonderful. Plaids, if you're in a quandary about this, make wonderful bindings, so do stripes. So, we are going to lay this one out like so, and then I am going to fold it so that I have got a bias grain and lay my ruler here to simulate how much would show if it was sewn onto my quilt. And here again, you can see these stripes make a wonderful binding. If you're really torn, it's always safe to go with the solid or a marble. And that's how you choose a binding for your quilt.

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