Machine Binding Video Tutorial

Binding, binding, and more binding!  It always seems there are quilts to be bound in my house.  In fact, I am sure if I were to venture to where most of my quilts are, I could find several quilts just waiting to be finished.

I used to bind all of my quilts by hand until about 2016.  Why 2016?  This was the year my second fabric line came out.  I hosted a “binding party” and invited over my mom, aunt, and grandma to help me hand bind my quilts.  I served them lunch and we had a grand old time chatting, binding, and eating.  It was fun!–but, I also realized that I needed to come up with a faster binding method.

I had tried machine binding prior to that but had never been happy with how the binding turned out.  Usually the front looked fine but the back did not.  In 2013, I shared a faux-piped machine binding tutorial here on my blog.  This was the first time that I had machine bound a quilt from start to finish and been happy with the result.  But I didn’t want this type of binding on all of my quilts so I still continued to hand bind almost all of them.

When I started having to bind so many quilts in a year, I knew I wanted to figure out a method that worked for me.  There are a lot of approaches to machine binding, and a lot of different tricks we can use.  Really, it’s finding the right combo that gets the results you want.  Different combinations will work for different people.

I’m thankful for all of the different machine binding tutorials available so I could try different things until I found what worked.  Cutting my binding strips at 2″, sewing to the back of the quilt, and finishing on the front with a top stitch on the very edge of the fold of the binding works best for me.

One of the most requested video tutorials on my YouTube channel was for a machine binding video.  So, I have put together a video that shows exactly how I do my machine binding.  You will find that video here. 

Being able to machine bind a quilt saves me so much time!

I hope you find this video helpful!  If you want to practice machine binding, start with something small.  It will take practice to get things just right.  Pillows, table runners, mini quilts, or table toppers are great projects to start with.  And tweak your technique until you get it just right for you.  Quilting is awesome because we have so many different ways of accomplishing the same task.  This means we can completely tailor each thing we do when making quilts so it’s perfect for each one of us.

Just a couple other non-binding things to let you know about:

I added a few Beautiful Day scrap bundles to my shop.  These sell quickly so snag one right away if you’d like one.

And lastly, just a few more days to snag the March $5 pattern of the month, Cotton Frock, in my Etsy shop.

Cotton Frock, March 2022 $5 pattern of the month

Enjoy your weekend! Corey