Finally Some Binding

 

Remember this little quilt? “Rainy Garden Windows”.It is only 35 X 35 inches square and has been waiting several months for binding. It did have some personal attention now and again when I had a few moments to bury the tail ends of all the quilting threads. There were a lot of those.

Here a little close-up of some of the binding I hand stitched yesterday evening.

Here is the back of the quilt.

I am liking this backing more and more as time goes by.  It was a relatively inexpensive fabric that I bought at JoAnn’s several years ago. I am glad that I bought a lot of it since some of the ladies in my friendship group thought that the back of the quilt was the front of the quilt. I guess I will just have to make another quilt with this batik on the front. Maybe something with some artistic applique on the top.

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This is a tip that Nancy Rink taught me when I took a binding class from her many, many years ago.

After cutting strips of fabric for your binding and piecing them together, it is easy to make a neatly folded and pressed binding strip. Push two long straight pins into your ironing board cover, and then thread the folded strip underneath them. Press the portion of the strip between the pins. Slide that portion forward, and press the next sections until the entire strip is doubled and ironed flat.