how to pick a quilt backing
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- Measure the width of your quilt and add 4-6 (or chosen excess). Design a backing to equal that width, adding 1/2 to each panel for each seam you'll use to sew it to a neighboring panel. Cut panels to the length of your quilt plus 4-6 (or chosen excess). Sew panels together with a 1/2 seam allowance. Press seams open to reduce bulk. Press backing before use.
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How I straight line quilt I've scattered a few photos throughout the post of quilts I've straight line quilted. 1. Backing: we all know that quilt backing is the most expensive part of the whole process so keep this cheap. Whenever I need a quilt backing, I go straight to the sale section at Fat Quarter Shop.
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Make Your Own T-Shirt Quilt -Easy How-To Instructions You now have sewing the entire front together! Take your t-shirt quilt front to your ironing surface and iron from the back side to press your seams. Next you will cut a piece of backing fabric 36 x 48 and place it face up on a flat surface. Make sure it is placed flat and taught. Now lay your t-shirt quilt front FACE DOWN on top of the backing fabric. Pin your edges. Take to the sewing machine and sew the entire edging of your quilt with 1/4 seam-but leave a 4 space open to allow you to turn the quilt. Once you've turned the quilt, you can either hand sew or machine sew the 4 opening closed.
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How To Finish A Quilt With No Binding Then the quilting is done. Follow these simple steps for this no binding flip and quilt technique. First, cut all three layers – backing, batting and top – the same dimension. My pieces are 12 ½″ inches each.
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- Our selections from the Dream Company are: 100% cotton in request, select and deluxe weights, poly puff, and 100% wool. We offer a complete binding service: we will prepare and attach binding to the front of the quilt by machine, from fabric you provide, and hand finish it to the back of the quilt, for .55/inch. Or, you can choose a half binding at .25/inch. We prepare and attach the binding to your quilt, and you complete the hand work. To figure this cost, multiply the cost of the service you want, times the total inches of the four sides of your top.
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How to Machine Quilt Your First Quilt The first two lines of this anchor quilting are along the center most seam, both vertically and horizontally. (right). Make it a habit, as you learn how to machine quilt, to stitch the seam line that lies on the lengthwise grain (the most stable grain) of the backing fabric first. Then turn your quilt 90 degrees. Quilt the crosswise center most seam.
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How to Display Quilt Wall Hangings This will hold the dowel in place and keep the top of the quilt from sagging while on the wall. Pin the end of the ribbon to one side of the top of the quilt where the dowel is sewn in. Unspool the ribbon and cut it 1 or 2 inches past the opposite edge of the quilt. Turn the ribbon end over so there is a fold in it. This will allow it to hang on the screw or nail with the ribbon against the wall.
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How To Finish A Quilt With No Binding Place backing on top of quilt top right sides together. Pin the layers together leaving the outside edges free. Pin layers together so they do not shift when sewing edges. Sew around the outside edges leaving an opening large enough to pull all three layers through.o start there is no binding on the finished piece. Instead the piece has been sewn together, all three layers then flipped so that everything is right side out and the opening that was left is sewn together by hand. Then the quilting is done. Follow these simple steps for this no binding flip and quilt technique.
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Attaching backing to a quilt top When it comes to machine quilting--I've used the adhesive backed batting that you iron top to batting to backing, which worked ok, but you still had to pin every 4 inches or so along the outside border, and in the end, I still had a little bit of bunching in the back.
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Standard Quilt Sizes and Mattresses Chart  (Commercial Manufacturers) After deciding which quilt size best fits your bed, add approximately 6-8 to both width and length measurements to determine the batting and backing sizes that you'll need to finish your own quilts. Quilts that are intended to be long arm quilted also need additional batting and backing.
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- Step 1: Cutting your strips. Cut your binding strips as follows:1 strip for the quilt top2 strip for the quilt backJoin strips until they are long enough for all four sides of your ... 2. Sew the 1 and 2 strips right sides together using a 1/4 seam allowance.
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- Out of 2,807 total undergraduates enrolled in Culinary Institute of America, 71% of students received federal grant aid and 62% of students took federal student loan. 1  Grant Aid: 2,006 total undergraduates received on average $8,156 in grant aid.
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- For example, suppose the backing you need for a quilt is 52 inches wide by 96 inches long and the fabric you wish to use for the backing is on a bolt of fabric whose width is 43 inches. The yardage required is 5 1/3 yards.
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Machine Quilt Binding Tutorial Trim the batting and backing to match the raw edge of the binding and the quilt front. 13. If necessary, change your presser foot and set your machine for a small zigzag. For my machine it is 3.0 setting for the width and 2.0 setting for the length.
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How to Miter Quilt Corners Pin the border strips to the raw edges of your quilt, right sides together. The strips should extend an equal distance past the quilt edge on each side. Stitch the border strips to the raw edges of your quilt using a 1/4-inch seam allowance. Begin and end stitching 1/4 inch from the edges of the quilt at the corners and be sure to backstitch to secure your seam.
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Quilting Typically, quilting is done with three layers: the top fabric or quilt top, batting or insulating material and backing material. The process of quilting uses a needle and thread to join two or more layers of material to make a quilt.
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How to Quilt Lay your backing fabric down in an open, flat space (be sure to iron/press backing fabric prior to this step), right side down. Then lay your batting on top – I use a bamboo batting purchased at my local quilt store, but I also love 100% cotton batting such as warm n’ natural.
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JELLY ROLL QUILT PATTERN Fabric requirements. one jelly roll, 3/4 yard of fabric for the corners and infills, 3/4 yard for the border and about 2.3/4″ yards of backing fabric. Wadding 62″ by 70″. The quilt measures 58″ by 70″.
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How to Paper Piece a Quilt Paper Piecing Seam Allowances. 1  Trim back seam allowances to an even width after you sew each seam or you'll end up with thick bunches of unruly fabric on the back of your quilt blocks. 2  Don't worry if the raw edges of fabric don't match exactly when you're positioning patches to sew a seam — you'll trim them back after sewing.
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Internal Server Error Because my seam is 1/8 wider, I have a very nice full binding when I turn the binding to the back of the quilt to stitch down. Stop sewing 1/4 from the first corner; backstitch. Remove the needle from the quilt and cut the threads. Fold the binding up, then back down even with edge of the quilt. Begin stitching at the edge of next side, backstitch to secure and continue sewing. Repeat at all corners. Stop sewing about 6 to 8 from where the binding strip started on the first side.
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Get Crafty and Learn How to Make Your Own Quilts Learn Quilt Binding Basics. It's easy to make quilt binding strips from any fabric and then sew the binding to the quilt. One popular method is binding sewn with mitered corners. Mitered binding is easy, so be sure to give it a try. A quilt hanging sleeve makes it easy to hang a quilt on the wall or in a show.
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How to make a T-shirt quilt video tutorial Your backing fabric needs to be 10 inches wider than your quilt. So for a 40 inch square quilt, you’ll want backing fabric that is 50 inches square. If you buy two lengths of 45 inch wide fabric you’ll have a lot of leftover fabric. You’ll have less waste if you get two yards and piece the backing together.
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Get Crafty and Learn How to Make Your Own Quilts Learn Quilt Binding Basics. 1  It's easy to make quilt binding strips from any fabric and then sew the binding to the quilt. One popular method is binding sewn with mitered corners. 2  A quilt hanging sleeve makes it easy to hang a quilt on the wall or in a show.
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Quilt Batting 101 Use a needle punched, 100% cotton batting. for the best beginning machine quilting results. Needle-punched because it's a stable batting with little stretch. It'll be harder to pull out of shape as you quilt your first quilts. In the picture below, the sturdier looking batting is on the right, and is needlepunched.earding tends to make the colors of the quilt look 'hazy'. Loft: The height or puffiness of a batting. A low loft batting creates a flat, antique looking quilt (like the Quilter's Dream 100% cotton batting on the right below). A 'Fatt Batt' (100% polyester, below left), by contrast, is intended for a tied quilt.
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Sewing the Binding onto the Front of the Quilt by Machine 1 Tuck the end into the start, making sure it lies smoothly. 2  Finish sewing the binding to the quilt, overlapping your starting stitches. 3  Continue around each of the corners until you reach the side where you started; stop about 8 to 10 from the previous stitching and backstitch (leave a 6 to 8 tail).
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A Complete Step-by-Step For Binding Quilts & Throws 1 You can also try a different stitch on the front of the quilt, such as a Blind Hem stitch. 2  It's a unique look that can add to the appearance of the finished edge, and the wider swing makes it easier to catch the back of the binding. Prepare and sew the binding to the quilt (by machine) in the manner described above. 2  Wrap the folded edge of the binding to the backside of the quilt, creating the mitered corners, again as we described above. 3  Thread a hand needle with a thread to match the binding fabric.