Binding by machine, with mitered corners

When I do a quilt, I always attach the binding on the front by machine and then turn it to the back and hand sew it. It’s just so hard to catch it perfectly and evenly on the back. But on smaller or less important projects, it’s nice to be able to finish the binding quickly. But what about the corners? How do you get nice corners? It’s possible. The one at left is the back side of a project I just did. Here’s an example of things gone wrong. This is the back side. I’m going to take you…

All-machine binding

This post is an unplanned one, and not one I’d normally post here because it’s just a personal project. But a number of people have asked about binding entirely by machine, and as I was working on this, I decided to grab my camera and do a post. So finishing a binding entirely by machine, whether it be bias-tape binding of an edge or a full quilt binding, is something that makes many sewers pull their hair out. I’m among those. There are some little tricks for bias-tape binding, addressed in this tutorial, but it’s not fool-proof. For this blanket,…