How to Make Binding Tape
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How to Make Binding Tape
05:43
Taught by Ashley Nickels
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Custom-made binding tape adds a gorgeous finishing touch to your quilts, allowing you to play around with colors and prints. Binding tape is typically used to bind quilts and can be made with fabric that has been cut on the straight of grain. Ashley Nickels demonstrates how to create your own binding tape using any fabric you like and sew the strips together to create one long strip to go all around your quilt. Watch Ashley's class on attaching binding tape to find out how to sew it to your quilt.
Here’s what you’ll need:
  • 2 1/4in wide strips fabric of choice
  • long enough to add up to total perimeter + 10in extra
  • Snips
  • Pins
  • Ruler
  • Rotary cutter
  • Cutting mat with 45-degree angle
  • Ruler
  • Iron and ironing surface
  • Sewing machine with 1/4in foot
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Learn how to:
  • Create your own binding tape
  • Create a stirp long enough for your project
What you’ll get:
  • Step-by-step expert instruction from Ashley Nickels on how make binding tape
  • A quick video lesson you can access online anytime, anywhere
  • Detailed supplies list
  • The ability to leave comments, ask questions, and interact with other students
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How to Make Binding Tape Reviews
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Reba Knowles
Good instruction; I will refer to it when I prepare my binding.
More than 3 months ago
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Stacy Anderson
Anyone else notice/bothered by the fact that she switched pieces of fabric she was working on halfway through to cover her mistake? She didn't pay enough attention while cutting and her leaves were going in the opposite direction on the two pieces, but after pressing, she switched to pieces that were correctly oriented. If you happen to be using directional fabric like she was, make sure you pay really close attention to the direction when cutting! Otherwise, a great class, I just get paranoid about these things lol.
More than 3 months ago
 
Colleen Burgess
very helpful
More than 3 months ago
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