How To Bind A Quilt With Minky Backing

Similarly one may ask, how do you bind a quilt with minky backing? Minky does not ravel so you only have to sew over one layer of fabric, not bulky at all.

2 layer rag quilt then put Minky backing with a silk

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How to bind a quilt with minky backing. Minky does not ravel so you only have to sew over one layer of fabric, not bulky at all. Pin well along all sides of the quilt.to miter the corners of the binding, trim the excess batting across the corner and fold in the minky in. When backing a quilt with minky, i find that spray basting is the best way to handle the stretch.

For larger projects, use batting that is slightly large and then trim it with scissors to the size of your project after quilting the 3 layers together. But then, all i could think was how dull a plain cotton binding would be, especially from the back. Sew to the corner and leave the needle in the fabric as you lift the presser foot and turn to go down the next edge.

Trim the batting appropriately and press the binding. With a knit fabric like fleece or minky, i add even more fabricabout 4 to 5 extra inches on all sides.so if the quilt top is 90 x 100, a minky quilt back would be 100 x 110. I used it for a quilt for my gd.

Sew with the fleece side down, against your sewing machines feed dogs. Stitch in the ditch to secure the quilt layers together, working from the center out. Pin well along all sides of the quilt.

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You can pin baste, but use pins every 4 or so and take care not to stretch the backing! Then fold again so that the minky overlaps the quilt top by about 3/8. A touch from the iron helps here to set the crease.

I used elmers school glue instead of pins and used a serpentine stitch. It has shirts and plaid from uniforms. Make sure the soft side of the fabrics is facing outwards.

It is imperative that you leave the basting stitch provided by the quilter around the edge. To miter the corners of the binding, trim the excess batting across the corner and fold in the minky in. Open the binding and fold the ends into a triangle.

Continue until youve folded and pinned the binding around the whole quilt. This helps keep the fleeces bulk and stretch under control as you sew. Sew it down using a walking foot, right along the edge of the binding.

The backing is traditionally a solid piece of fabric and can be plain, colored or patterned to coordinate with the top. I really wanted to back this quilt in minky, because i think it would make it even more appealing. The final step in making a quilt is to bind, or cover, the raw edges.

The front needs that nice straight edge. Once you are at the point that you are ready to bind a quilt that is backed in minky (or cuddle), trim the excess of leaving about 1 of backing and batting. You can hide more mistakes that way.

Trim the cotton until there is 1 extra around all sides of the minky. How to bind a quilt using the backing fabric. Theres nothing like a soft edge to a quilt.

Jenny doan has a great tutorial on folding minky to the front for binding. The filling of the sandwich is the batting of polyester fiberfill or other batting material. This is a great way to use up scraps of minky fabric!

Heres what you need to get started: The final step in making a quilt is to bind, or cover, the raw edges. When i baste the quilt, i am careful to gently stretch the minky just a tiny bit and tape it in place on my floor (or you can use tables for easier accessibility if you have one large enough).

Simple shapes are very easy and quick to applique using cuddle. I like to sew the binding on the front of the quilt so it wraps to the back. It just feels better that.

Other 2 after quilting, i cut the fleece 2 larger and turned it (2x) to the front. Once the minky is taped down with just a tiny bit of stretch, i flatten the batting on top and spread it out. You may want to baste the layers lightly together with basting spray, but for a quilt this small, i usually dont baste.

Making your quilt sandwich is arguably the single most important step for success when backing a quilt with minky fabric. For the binding, i wrapped the backing to the front of the quilt and mitered the corners. The next time, i prewashed the quilt top fabrics, used a thin 100% cotton batting, fmq quilted the snot out of just the quilt top and batting before layering the minkee backing on (not recommended uncovered cotton batting next to my feed dogs created lint of nightmare proportions!), and then i layered with the minkee backing and just did random eyelet circles throughout the quilt,.

Since my project is so small i used a fusible fleece batting the same size as the block so it wouldnt slip. So if the quilt top is 90 x 100, the back would be 96 x 106. Fold the cotton over once, just up to the edge of the minky.

Next, you need to iron them gently, so. Fold the cotton over once more, covering the raw edge of the minky and clip or pin in place. I like to place the binding strip so that the nap wraps around the quilt to the back.

Minky binding tutorial here at bottom: I like to use a full 1/2 seam. Using a zigzag stitch, sew around the combination of the binding and quilt top.

Whole cloth baby quilt with minky backing and easy binding