Quilt Binding

[So Chic]

I'm finally getting round to binding the quilt I made back in April but do I cut the binding strips lengthwise or crosswise or doesn't it matter?

[KayK]

Do you mean vertically or horizontally - I would cut where there is most length - Don't cut on the bias though - it will stretch like the very devil!

[Flobear]

I was getting round to asking this question too.

I always cut mug rug binding on the bias - a Light side throwback (and Sister Mary Joseph  ) - but wonder if it's not that sensible when you have a long straight run round a double-bed quilt. 

There has, I know been previous discussion on this but don't have time to hunt for it as I'm trying to get painting finished so furniture can be returned to its proper place.

[BrendaP]

Lengthways is more stable, crossways gives a tiny bit of ease/wiggle room if the cutting and/or edge isn't perfect, but really it doesn't make that much difference.  I like striped bindings; they need to be cut so that the stripes across the strips regardless of the direction of the stripes on the bolt.  Diagonal/bias binding is only for when you are binding a curved edge.

[So Chic]

Thank you all for the advice which seems to say I can cut anyway I want so I will just hack away.

[Iminei]

Crosswise across the WOF for me ... diagonal joins

[Lowena]

I cut crossways ,width of fabric but most often I use smaller strips to make a variegated binding.
Never  cut quilt binding on the bias

[Missie]

Crosswise across the WOF for me ... diagonal joins

@Iminei  please could you translate that 

[Puzzler]

Not Imi but could she mean ‘weft of fabric’?

[Sandra]

@Iminei  please could you translate that 

WOF is width of fabric, so cut your pieces across from selvedge to selvedge and when she joins them she uses a diagonal join. 

Sandra.
xxx

[Iminei]

Thank you @Sandra





From the Cot Quilt from start to finish tutorial

[Bodgeitandscarper]

@Iminei And all the dressmakers here will be wondering why you didn't pattern match that   

[Flobear]

Ooh, @Bodgeitandscarper , are you venturing a little wind-up? 

Actually as a long-time lightsider my inclination is to match joins but, even if you do, when you get to the final join, it doesn't work - ask me how I know 

Of course if you make straight joins it's a lot less noticeable but then you get lumpy bits in the binding.    Dilemma!

[Iminei]

@Iminei And all the dressmakers here will be wondering why you didn't pattern match that

Almost impossible with a pattern like that and you probably wouldnt see it once its turned over and sewn down

Front



Back

[Missie]

@Iminei And all the dressmakers here will be wondering why you didn't pattern match that   

My eye was twitching and I was hyperventilating whilst thinking "Nope.  No, no, no.  I would have to match that up!"