How to Join the Binding Strips

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JEANNETTE WHITE: Hi. I'm Jeannette White on behalf of Expert Village and Piper's Quilts & Comforts located in Sugarhouse. Today, we're going to be talking about joining bias strips. We've already cut our strips on bias two and a half inches wide and now, we're going to be joining these bias seams in preparation for putting our binding on our quilt. The first thing we have to do is make sure that we have like image. In other words, this image and the slant is identical to this image. Now, if we set this up and we had a situation like this, we would just take one of our strips and flip it around and then we would have an identical image. Then, right sides go together and then we're going to pick up the top piece, and we're going to angle it so that we can prepare our seam. Now, what we're looking for is stitching from valley to valley, this is what I call this is V, valley right here and I'm going to stitch from this point to this point, so let's do this. I will begin my stitching right where that valley is. And I've got a stripe here so this stripe is actually aiding me in giving me a line. Now, I'm going to pick up the bottom one and I'm going to bring it up on the bed of the sewing machine. I'm going to pick up my next piece of bias. I'm going to make like image, put right sides together, and then I'm going to angle the top one so that I get valley to valley and a bias line that I can stitch, and I'm just going to feed the next one in. And you would keep doing this until you had enough inches to go all the way your quilt plus about 10. Now, I stitched all my strips together and that is enough inches to go all the way around my quilt plus about 10 inches because I need to make my final seam. And I'm going to stitch to the very end. Pick up one of my little strips, put it underneath my needle, and I can cut free my work. And that's how you stitch together your strips in preparation for doing your binding on your quilt.

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