Comments on: Back to School Blog Hop – Making Bias Binding!

By: Back to School Blog Hop… Change that needle!

Back to School Blog Hop… Change that needle! — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 23:29:53 +0000

[…] 5: Sam Hunter of Hunter’s Design Studio – How to Calculate and Cut Bias […]

By: Wrap it Up! – Direct Links to all of the Back to School hop blog posts | Jolly and Delilah Quilts

Wed, 07 Oct 2015 19:04:36 +0000

[…] 5: Sam Hunter of Hunter’s Design Studio – How to Calculate and Cut Bias […]

By: Bill Volckening

Bill Volckening — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 17:45:04 +0000

I love anyone who thinks about binding and edge finishes. With the antique and vintage quilts, I pay special attention to the edge finishes and have even blogged about it. Sometimes these fine details can help with dating old quilts. In 100 years, when people are examining the quilts of the early 21st century, they will see a lot of bias binding.

By: Lara B.

Lara B. — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:11:28 +0000

Well that does it! You’ve convinced me to give bias binding a try Sam! Great tutorial!

By: On The Go Quilting » Second Saturday Skill-builders

On The Go Quilting » Second Saturday Skill-builders — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 04:41:01 +0000

[…] your binding on the bias. That’s a scary thing for many quilters, not just newbies. HERE is a great tutorial on Making Bias Binding. Sam at Hunters Design Studio prefers to use bias […]

By: Sam Hunter

Sam Hunter — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 15:42:05 +0000

In reply to Karen. When you cut the strips this way, most of them will all angle the same way, but the ones that come from the triangles will have ends that are opposite in cut direction. I just turn them around. Occasionally I'll end with one odd piece that doesn't fit either end of the strip that's already together, and I either I re-cut it to work, or I leave it off until I'm sure I need it.

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 13:15:17 +0000

I’ve made a bias binding for two recent quilt finishes. Both times I had trouble when sewing the strips together. I’m not sure what I was doing wrong. Sometimes the angles of the ends didn’t fit and so I had to re-cut the end so it went the other way. This happened for both quilts and only on maybe two of the strips for each. (It didn’t work to use the other end of the strip.) Does this ever happen for you? Or do you know what I did wrong? Lucky for me I used a big fudge factor so I had plenty of fabric to re-angle the end!
By the way, this is an excellent blog hop. Thanks for participating.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 12:42:21 +0000

This was interesting and I’m glad that you responded to the question about the tube method as well. That’s the way I had heard it done. It’s always a good idea to have an alternative method and this made a lot of sense.

I am enjoying your blog hop very much!

By: Sam Hunter

Sam Hunter — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 03:44:08 +0000

In reply to Kathleen. I cut a single layer of fabric/ I don't like the tube method at all!

By: Sam Hunter

Sam Hunter — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 03:43:32 +0000

In reply to Tracie Barisich. The tube was the first way I learned it, and I really hated it so developed this :-)