Mitred Corners Binding Tutorial

1. Prepare your binding. It can be single as in the pic or

doubled over e.g. for a hard wearing quilt. It can also be
bias cut or straight grain.

2. I start by joining my binding a few inches before a corner,

leave a long tail of binding for joining when you come to
the end. Stitch your binding to your fabric, using ¼ seam
allowance. Stop sewing and secure with a few back
stitches when you are ¼ “ from the end of the fabric edge.

3. Take the fabric trip and fold it back ( see arrow for
direction). You will get a nice diagonal line, an angle of 45
degrees and the binding strip will line up with the fabric
edge that you are about to sew down. Press the diagonal
crease.

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4. Now keeping the diagonal crease where it is, fold the
binding strip downwards (see arrow for direction). Along
the top edge of the corner there will be a horizontal fold
where the binding fabric will be lying along the next edge
to be sewn. Press the horizontal fold. Place a pin to keep
everything in place, You will now sew down this edge using
¼” seam allowance as before and starting at the very top
corner.

It should look like this

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 5. You can now flip the fabric over, press and sew the binding
down on the reverse side, wither bi hand using slip stitch or
using your machine. A lovely mitred corner- very neat!

You are welcome to link to this tutorial in your blog or website.

Happy Sewing!

verykerryberry July 2010

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