How To Bind A Quilt With Minky Backing

October 05, 2021 Post a Comment

Then fold again so that the minky overlaps the quilt top by about 3/8. Simple shapes are very easy and quick to applique using cuddle.

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I like to sew the binding on the front of the quilt so it wraps to the back.

How to bind a quilt with minky backing. It just feels better that. Pin well along all sides of the quilt.to miter the corners of the binding, trim the excess batting across the corner and fold in the minky in. Jenny doan has a great tutorial on folding minky to the front for binding.

Our national educator teresa coates shares how to sew binding on a quilt with cuddle and luxe cuddle minky fabric! But then, all i could think was how dull a plain cotton binding would be, especially from the back. Continue until youve folded and pinned the binding around the whole quilt.

Heres what you need to get started: For larger projects, use batting that is slightly large and then trim it with scissors to the size of your project after quilting the 3 layers together. Trim the cotton until there is 1 extra around all sides of the minky.

When i baste the quilt, i am careful to gently stretch the minky just a tiny bit and tape it in place on my floor (or you can use tables for easier accessibility if you have one large enough). The next time, i prewashed the quilt top fabrics, used a thin 100% cotton batting, fmq quilted the snot out of just the quilt top and batting before layering the minkee backing on (not recommended uncovered cotton batting next to my feed dogs created lint of nightmare proportions!), and then i layered with the minkee backing and just did random eyelet circles throughout the quilt,. Once the minky is taped down with just a tiny bit of stretch, i flatten the batting on top and spread it out.

Minky does not ravel so you only have to sew over one layer of fabric, not bulky at all. How to bind a quilt using the backing fabric. Once you are at the point that you are ready to bind a quilt that is backed in minky (or cuddle), trim the excess of leaving about 1 of backing and batting.

With a knit fabric like fleece or minky, i add even more fabricabout 4 to 5 extra inches on all sides.so if the quilt top is 90 x 100, a minky quilt back would be 100 x 110. Pin well along all sides of the quilt. So if the quilt top is 90 x 100, the back would be 96 x 106.

Get your satin binding ready. I really wanted to back this quilt in minky, because i think it would make it even more appealing. Minky binding tutorial here at bottom:

Minky does not ravel so you only have to sew over one layer of fabric, not bulky at all. Open the binding and fold the ends into a triangle. The backing is traditionally a solid piece of fabric and can be plain, colored or patterned to coordinate with the top.

It has shirts and plaid from uniforms. A touch from the iron helps here to set the crease. I like to use a full 1/2 seam.

This is a great way to use up scraps of minky fabric! Stitch in the ditch to secure the quilt layers together, working from the center out. Sew it down using a walking foot, right along the edge of the binding.

You can hide more mistakes that way. I used elmers school glue instead of pins and used a serpentine stitch. Since my project is so small i used a fusible fleece batting the same size as the block so it wouldnt slip.

Other 2 after quilting, i cut the fleece 2 larger and turned it (2x) to the front. How to bind a quilt with minky backing. I like to place the binding strip so that the nap wraps around the quilt to the back.

Fold the cotton over once, just up to the edge of the minky. Theres nothing like a soft edge to a quilt. Similarly one may ask, how do you bind a quilt with minky backing?

This helps keep the fleeces bulk and stretch under control as you sew. Fold the cotton over once more, covering the raw edge of the minky and clip or pin in place. You can pin baste, but use pins every 4 or so and take care not to stretch the backing!

Trim the batting appropriately and press the binding. Making your quilt sandwich is arguably the single most important step for success when backing a quilt with minky fabric. It is imperative that you leave the basting stitch provided by the quilter around the edge.

The final step in making a quilt is to bind, or cover, the raw edges. When backing a quilt with minky, i find that spray basting is the best way to handle the stretch. (love my clover clips!) step 5:

Using a zigzag stitch, sew around the combination of the binding and quilt top. The filling of the sandwich is the batting of polyester fiberfill or other batting material. Make sure the soft side of the fabrics is facing outwards.

The front needs that nice straight edge. Next, you need to iron them gently, so. The final step in making a quilt is to bind, or cover, the raw edges.

Sew to the corner and leave the needle in the fabric as you lift the presser foot and turn to go down the next edge. You may want to baste the layers lightly together with basting spray, but for a quilt this small, i usually dont baste. For the binding, i wrapped the backing to the front of the quilt and mitered the corners.

I used it for a quilt for my gd. To miter the corners of the binding, trim the excess batting across the corner and fold in the minky in. Sew with the fleece side down, against your sewing machines feed dogs.

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