Fandom In Stitches. Lake Arrowhead Retreats. Day Style Designs: Online Quilt Shop Dedicated to Free Motion Quilting information, tools, and supplies. Flynn Quilt Frame Company: Home Page. Quilting Tips: Binding. Here’s another excerpt from our Quiltmaking Basics. Once you’ve basted together and quilted the 3 layers of your quilt (backing, batting, and pieced top), you’re ready to finish it with binding. After the quilting is completed, trim excess batting and backing from the quilt even with the edges of the quilt top.
Double Fold Straight Grain Binding If you want a 1/4″ finished binding, cut the binding strips 2″ wide and piece them together with diagonal seams to make a continuous binding strip.