Piecing Fabric Strips for Borders and Binding Using A Diagonal Seam - Jacquelynne Steves. Today, we are going “back to basics”! We will be talking about how to piece long strips together using a diagonal seam. Most often, we piece strips together for binding- because you need a looooooong continuous strip of fabric to go around all the edges of your quilt. However, you can also use this method for piecing together strips for quilt borders. If the side of your quilt is more than about 41″ long, you have 2 options: you can piece together strips which have been cut across the width of the fabric (from selvedge to selvedge, which is about 40-42″ for most quilting cottons) OR you can purchase enough fabric to cut one long continuous border along the length of the fabric (parallel to the selvedge.)
For binding, using a diagonal seam has the bonus of distributing the bulk of the seam allowances, so you don’t end up with a big lump in your binding where you pieced your strips together. A diagonal seam is less noticeable than a straight seam. Sew on the line. That’s it! Machine Minute: Adding Borders. Adding borders to your quilt is a great way to finish it off.
Here are some tips for measuring to ensure a square result. Hi, I'm Linda, and today's Machine Minute is brought to you by the Baby Lock Crescendo machine. Today we're going to take a little bit about adding the borders to your quilt. I like to wait until I'm done piecing my top before I cut those border strips, and here's why. Give Your Quilt That Special Edge With Prairie Point Binding. Are you looking for a different way to finish your quilt other than simple binding? Or, have you ever thought your quilt would look wonderful with folded fabric prairie points, but you didn’t quite know how to add them to your quilt? Read on to find out that prairie point binding is not as tricky as it looks, and it’s especially easy with our 10 step method for attaching prairie points! Let’s start by making prairie points There are many different ways to make prairie points, but here are two popular methods using squares.
To determine the size of the square required, start by figuring out how high you would like the finished prairie points to be. Then, use this simple formula to calculate the size of the squares: finished height x 2 + 1/2″. Centerfold prairie points These prairie points bring the open folds to the center of the point. To make centerfold prairie points, fold your square in half, right sides of the fabric out. Nesting prairie points Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Step 5.