So I was super excited about being done with the quilt and just needing to add the binding. I hadn't done binding in a long time, well over a year, and forgot how wide to cut it. I cut my binding 2 inches. I put the strips together, pressed it and sewed it to the front with a quarter inch seam allowance. I don't hand sew binding on except for maybe my first quilt which was a table runner.
When I turned the binding over to the back it didn't reach past the stitching line! I thought if I glued it down I might be able to stitch it down. I didn't use a fine tip and I was super frustrated gluing down the binding. I even used an iron to speed it up. I am never doing that again and it took forever! I stopped gluing with maybe 25 inches left and just used my wonder clips, which I have plenty of. I started by straight stitching about 10 inches to see if the stitching was catching in the back. It wasn't. I was so close to finishing. Then I remembered, "Babies don't care." I switched to a small zigzag stitch and finished going around the quilt and back over my previous stitching. It worked! Not a single bit of binding was loose! Here's a close up of the back.
It hardly shows with the busy binding I chose. I was so happy it came out good enough. I also love Angela Walter's saying of "Done is better than perfect." This quilt is done. It just needs a photo shoot and mailed to my sister.
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