Hand Binding a Quilt: A complete tutorial for how to Bind your Quilt with hand stitching two ways!

Do you want to learn how to Bind your Quilt with hand stitching? Watch this quilt binding tutorial video to see two different methods for hand stitching the binding of a quilt! This is an easy quilting tutorial perfect for someone learning how to quilt!

Hand sewing the binding on the quilt was the way my grandma taught me to do it, and is still my favorite method for binding a quilt. I thoroughly love the slow pace and getting to snuggle under the quilt while I work at it.

If you choose the sew your binding on by hand, you'll sew the first side of your binding down on the machine, and then flip it over and sew it by hand. This video is a full tutorial from how to make quilt binding to big stitch quilt binding.

First, I'll show you how to prep your quilt and make the binding, and then I share my tips for successfully sewing the binding onto one side of your quilt with the sewing machine. Next, we dive into how to hand stitch the binding down using either invisible stitches, or big bold hand quilting stitches!

Do you have a favorite way to bind quilts?

Find my 3-part blog series for How to Bind a Quilt here:
https://homemadeemilyjane.com/quilt-binding-part-1/
https://homemadeemilyjane.com/quilt-binding-machine-sewing/

A common question about binding a quilt is whether you need to cut the binding on the bias. For straight-edge quilts, you can cut the quilt binding straight on grain, not on the bias. If your quilt has curved edges or rounded corners, you’ll want to cut the binding on the bias. In this video I cut width of fabric strips on the grain.

Here is my favorite ruler for cutting out quilt binding:
Stripology Ruler on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3yWqkzp
Stripology Ruler on Fat Quarter Shop: https://shrsl.com/35l6a

The quilt shown in this video is a variation of the Sprightly Quilt Pattern, which can be found in my shop here:
https://homemadeemilyjane.com/product/sprightly-quilt-pattern/


00:00 Quilt Binding Tutorial
00:42 Prepping your Quilt for Binding
01:12 Making Your Quilt Binding
03:04 Sewing Binding onto your Quilt
05:03 Perfect Mitered Corners
6:30 Joining the binding ends
10:01 Hand Stitching the Quilt Binding
10:59 Supplies for Hand Stitching
13:03 Invisible stitches for Hand Binding
15:59 Big Stitch Hand Binding

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