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This is the Dirt Cheap Milk Container binding system, and can also utilize a cereal box, so you could call it the brakfast binding system.
There is more on this binding system on my website www.judyofthewoods.net/dcmc_binder.html
Fold the binding over the back of the quilt and pin in place. Make sure that when you fold it again to sew it to the backing that the binding will cover the stitching that you just did. Adjust your seam allowance as needed, or trim if necessary (be careful not to cut too much if you have to!).
this is the quilt last night, mum stitched the binding on then we sat and hand stitched it to the back last night and today. blogged
Binding with a mitered corner tutorial:
I'm binding a doll quilt here, and I like my binding pretty narrow, about 1/4" wide. I cut my binding strips 1 1/8".
(If you prefer a wider binding: For example if you want it 1/2" wide, cut your binding strip at least 2 1/8". You can add a 1/8" or more if you have a thicker quilt, too. I use very thin cotton batting.)
I don't usually use pins here because I think it's easier to match my raw edges as I sew. Start your binding strip in the center of the bottom of your quilt, with the raw edge folded over about 1/4".
Working on the front side of the quilt, with right sides facing each other, match the binding and quilt edges and sew with 1/4" seam allowance. When you approach the corner, stop 1/4" from the end of your quilt. I like to backstitch here.
Making sure not to disturb the first fold, fold the binding strip straight down matching your binding and quilt edges.
i covered the back of the sections in small strips of paper that ran to the sewing holes.
covered in pig suede, blind-tooled.
experimental clasp that can be drawn tight, or loosened to free the button on the front cover.
Blind Stitching the Binding:
With your thread coming up through the fold of the binding, insert the needle at the same point in the backing. You only need to catch a few threads, not more than 1/8" or a few mm.
Working parallel to the binding, bring the needle up and through the first layer of the binding. Again just catch no more than 1/8" of the binding, and bring the needle up through the fold of the binding seam allowance.
When you get to the corners take a stitch or two in the same fashion up the mitered corner and back.
Repeat, repeat, repeat! With a little practice you should be able to have a beautifully finished binding with invisible stitches!
When you get all the way around, overlap the edges of the binding strip. The bottom layer should be folded over 1/4" so that no raw edges will be sticking out.
When you get all the way around, overlap the edges of the binding strip. The bottom layer should be folded over 1/4" so that no raw edges will be sticking out.
Flip the quilt over and press your seam allowance about 1/4". Make sure that when you fold it again to sew it to the backing that the binding will cover the stitching from attaching the binding (next photo).
Then just fold the next side over and pin. You can tuck a little in the corner if needed and adjust your fold so that you have a perfect mitered corner as you are doing your hand sewing to close it.
This is a basic set of tools that all book binders should have. It's all resting on a sewing frame which is another binding tool.
I went with double fold, bias binding for this project. Usually I don't do bias binding as a double fold, but it worked out great. Blogged
Biblia latina. [Basel: Johann Amerbach], 1479. Front cover of binding: 16th-century blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards; cover decorated with fillets (forming three concentric rectangles), floral rolls, and a roll with Biblical(?) figures (all heavily worn); remains of two brass clasps; faded early title in ink beginning “biblia ...”. Sp Coll Euing Dq-c.11.
I have big plans to sit and slowly hand bind this sucker after dinner, but to be honest it most likley won't happen. It's almost seven and we still have to eat and then bedtime at 8 and then I am pooped.
Sometimes I wish I had about 4 more hours everyday.
I know it doesn't look like much, but that's more than 11 yards of 3/4 inch binding for my revised friendship quilt that was sent off to the quilters this week. It will be set aside until the quilt returns after its May 10th quilting.
On this first snowy day, which is also Thanksgiving Eve, we spent the afternoon watching a movie by the fire, eating kettle corn, and I sewed one side of the binding onto my quilt.
Biblia latina. With table of Gabriel Brunus. Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 8 May 1498. Front cover of binding: 19th-century quarter brown morocco, buckram-covered boards. Sp Coll Euing Dw-g.16.
I used up scraps of fabric for the binding but it is all in yellow.
blogged at crochetcami.blogspot.com
Identified
EVIDENCE
Provenance evidence: Binding, Binder's Mark
Location in book: Inside Front Cover
Transcription: BOUND BY RIVIERE & SON
IDENTIFICATION
Identified: Rivière & son, owner
COPY
Repository: Folger Shakespeare Library
Call number: 22277 Fo. no. 75
Copy title: Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies : published according to the true originall copies.
Author(s): Shakespeare, William
Published: London, 1623
Printer/Publisher: Issac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount
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