The Perfect Finish: How to Bind a Quilt

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Give your quilts the flawless finish they deserve! Confidently complete any project with beautiful binding and perfect piping. It’s easier than you think.

Preparing for a Successful Finish

Meet award-winning quilter Susan Cleveland as she previews the helpful finishing techniques you’ll learn to create beautiful binding for your quilts. Then get started! Susan details important steps in the preparation process, including selecting a batting, assembling and squaring up your quilt, pin basting and staystitching.

Plain Binding: Perfect Every Time

Do you want your binding to frame your quilt or blend in? Susan shares helpful advice on selecting the right fabric for your binding. Then find out how to cut and stitch your binding strips, apply the binding and join the tails to create the perfect finish to your quilt!

Finishing the Back Like a Pro

Achieving show-quality binding is easier than you ever imagined with Susan as your teacher. Learn how to fill the binding, miter corners and stitch the back of the binding to your quilt. In the process, you’ll discover helpful pointers that will make hand sewing or machine sewing your binding a breeze.

Fabulous Piping

Piping adds visual interest to a bound edge, while also offering an opportunity to sharpen your quilting skills. Susan gives two invaluable tips to make sewing the cord into the piping even easier by using zipper feet and sticky notes. Plus, see how to apply those same techniques to a sample quilt for fantastic results!

Applying Binding Over Piping

Susan shows how to take the piped edge she created in the previous lesson and apply binding. Practice making mitered corners to avoid bulk, then join the tails and finish it for a professional look that will enhance the design of your quilts.

Creative Bindings: Angles, Curves & More

Add a wow-factor to your quilting with a variety of creative bindings. Susan walks through the process of applying wide-piped binding, then shows you how to mark shapes and bind at odd angles or on curved edges. You’ll even discover some new and innovative piped variations!

Creative Bindings: Trims & Threads

Finishing quilts should be every bit as fun as starting them. Susan shows how to inject even more variety into your final steps with a series of creative bindings that incorporate trims and threads. Watch as she uses rickrack and prairie points, along with a number of decorative thread accents.