After posting pictures of the finished banner last week, which you can see HERE, it occurred to me that I had not shown off the backing fabric which I am totally in love with! So this post should actually have been done before the final reveal. I guess that's what happens when the excitement to show off the finished project is just too much to take! You all understand, don't you?
So after I finished the appliqué of the letters and the roof line and arch and pieced the top to the bottom, I quilted inside all the white squares and shapes and stitched very close to the edge all the way around. I've discovered this makes binding so much easier to do!
For the quilting, I used white thread and my presser foot as the guide and stitched just inside the blue frames on all the white fabric.
Then I trimmed off the excess all around the edges to prepare the banner for binding.
This is the gorgeous Moda fabric I used for the backing. It's the perfect shade of blue and the forget-me-nots couldn't be any happier! Don't you love that fabric? I sure do!
Using my favorite method of making bias binding, which you can find HERE, and the same Kona blue fabric as the sashing and letters, I made enough binding for the outside of the banner.
I also made my label and stitched the bottom edge of it into the binding to save myself having to hand stitch that edge. Every little bit helps!
I also made a sleeve using the backing fabric and stitched the top edge of that into the binding along the top of the banner.
For the final stitching of the binding, I had to use blue thread on the blue and white thread on the white so my imperfect stitching wouldn't show too much.
You can see the white stitching on the back, but I was ok with that as long as the front looked good.
And there's the finished back of the banner with the label stitched on and the sleeve at the top and all ready to turn it over to show the finished project...which I already did last week!
Happy Stitching!
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So after I finished the appliqué of the letters and the roof line and arch and pieced the top to the bottom, I quilted inside all the white squares and shapes and stitched very close to the edge all the way around. I've discovered this makes binding so much easier to do!
For the quilting, I used white thread and my presser foot as the guide and stitched just inside the blue frames on all the white fabric.
Then I trimmed off the excess all around the edges to prepare the banner for binding.
This is the gorgeous Moda fabric I used for the backing. It's the perfect shade of blue and the forget-me-nots couldn't be any happier! Don't you love that fabric? I sure do!
Using my favorite method of making bias binding, which you can find HERE, and the same Kona blue fabric as the sashing and letters, I made enough binding for the outside of the banner.
I also made my label and stitched the bottom edge of it into the binding to save myself having to hand stitch that edge. Every little bit helps!
I also made a sleeve using the backing fabric and stitched the top edge of that into the binding along the top of the banner.
For the final stitching of the binding, I had to use blue thread on the blue and white thread on the white so my imperfect stitching wouldn't show too much.
You can see the white stitching on the back, but I was ok with that as long as the front looked good.
And there's the finished back of the banner with the label stitched on and the sleeve at the top and all ready to turn it over to show the finished project...which I already did last week!Happy Stitching!
Click here to return to HookedOnNeedles.comLabels: bias binding, charity banner, Moda, quilting
posted by Mary Grace McNamara on Sunday, May 15, 2011
1 Comments:
Love the forget-me-not fabric - so pretty. Your idea of stitching around the edges before adding binding is great - I can see where this would definitely be helpful!
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May 16, 2011 at 7:27 AM
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