Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
- Mother Teresa
Martingale Monday #4...here we go again. Fix yo self a cuppa or a gulpa and let me show you some quilts!
I think this quilt is more of what a lot of people would think of when they sit down and decide to make an all neutral quilt. It is softer, lighter more subtle. The technique is so much fun and super fast! It is what I called a Double Disappearing Nine Patch. Of course the explanation of the technique is in the book. If you are looking for a quilt to give as a wedding gift or a fast finish this quilt is the ticket. By the way, I always make neutral quilts as wedding gifts. Young couples taste and decor change with every Pottery Barn Catalog edition.. but neutrals are timeless. The name of the quilt is Summer Stitch In. Named for the week long super fun retreat I host every year. Some of you will remember my posts from July with all the fun and quilts (100) we worked on.(and the shenanigans)
Notice no borders..you can add borders if you want..it is your quilt!
By the way did you know that I use neutral quilts as table cloths in my home?? If you come over for dinner I will put one on the table just to prove it! I don't worry about spills..I can always make another quilt. I worry more about spills on my family linen table cloths than my quilts. I can't replace them! Heck if you come over I'll serve you spaghetti pie on a quilt table cloth. (You will be drinking from a sippy cup with a plastic bib on.)
Here are the goodies you can win this week if you post a comment on this blog and tell me if you make binding from straight of grain strips or bias. Why do I want to know? You will find out next week on Martingale Monday #5. The winner this week will be announced on Thursday after I have several sippasss of coffee.
Drum roll..(ok just stomp your feet, who carries a drum around?) Here are the goodies I am giving away this week to dah winner.
By the way did you know that I use neutral quilts as table cloths in my home?? If you come over for dinner I will put one on the table just to prove it! I don't worry about spills..I can always make another quilt. I worry more about spills on my family linen table cloths than my quilts. I can't replace them! Heck if you come over I'll serve you spaghetti pie on a quilt table cloth. (You will be drinking from a sippy cup with a plastic bib on.)
Here are the goodies you can win this week if you post a comment on this blog and tell me if you make binding from straight of grain strips or bias. Why do I want to know? You will find out next week on Martingale Monday #5. The winner this week will be announced on Thursday after I have several sippasss of coffee.
Drum roll..(ok just stomp your feet, who carries a drum around?) Here are the goodies I am giving away this week to dah winner.
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| Kim Brackett's second book. I swear this girl has got it going on. I loved and made a couple of quilts from book #1 with my Silver Thimble Club...now she hits us with this baby. oooooh baby baby. I may like this book better than the first. No..yes...I don't know but you are gonna flip! |
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| My book..shipping to stores next week. You can also order it from my web site with free shipping until Nov 15th. |
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| My favorite ruler Creative Grids 6.5" x 12.5". I walk around with this thing in my hand. Even when I'm baking cookies. I love me some Creative Grids (I'm not paid to say that just so ya know, but I could be bought haha) |
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| If you know me this needs no explanation..JUMBO BAG! That'll get ya through the day. |
65 comments:
Well, to be honest.. I still don't quite understand how to cut the bias binding correctly. I tried but somehow I ended up with some of the cuts coming out at weird angles.. (dumb me). I went back to cutting mine on the straight of the grain. I wish I could find a tutorial that I could really understand, or have someone SHOW me. That hasn't happened for me yet. So, I cut them on the straight, and hope that they will last a lifetime. I love how you wrote that color tastes change, I can't tell you how I laugh at my color choices over the years..I completely agree with the neutrals idea!
Bias strips for the quilts that will get the most use. Straight of grain (much easier to cut) for wall hangings and less likely to be washed often items. Happy quilting.
I prefer bias bindings, they are sort of the gold standard simply for wear reasons. If I don't have a piece of my fabric large enough to make bias all at once the easy way I sometimes don't have the patience to do all the individual seams (because there are more if you are cutting a narrow piece on the bias) and I will make straight grain. Wall hangings etc also get straight grain unless I happen to have some bias that works left over from something else. I love the quilt from today, BTW. and Kim Brackett's book looks good too, I have one of the earlier ones that I have used a couple of times.
I love beige neutral quilts!! And I'm with you...love them as a tablecloth...but it might have to come off! :o) Thanks for the chance to win these goodies!! Oh...I make the usual bindings for quilts unless there are curves...I must have missed something..everyone is talking binding! Have a great week!!
Paulette
I have always cut my binding on the straight of grain. It's easier for me to cut and I've never had any problems with my binding. Even on a quilt my son used every day for 15 years ;-) Thanks for your awesome giveaways!
I usually use straight grain for my binding. If I'm using a strip, I almost always opt for the bias to get the bang for the buck visual in the stripe. I'll use bias for curved corner quilts, but most of my quilts have 90 degree corners. And I ALWAYS use double fold vs single fold - even for baby doll quilts and wall hangings.
Depending on the quilt, annd the binding fabric I will make any of those bindings, but my favorite is a double binding cut across the width of the fabric. Love the neutral quilt, and I have a bunch of wedding quilts to make in my not to distant future. Thanks for the ideas.
I always make a bias binding, even on straight-edged quilts. They wear better.
I usually do straight grain binding, unless the corners are curved, or I have a nice strip to use for the binding. I haven't noticed a difference in how it wears.
I actually cut my binding from the straight grain. I suppose if I had a lot of curves that I would cut bias. Love your blog.
I know you told me to do bias and I know you showed me how to do it (with a napkin you folded at lunch that day) and I know Gene has done it AND made a video about it, but.....I cannot tell a lie, I still do straight-of-grain binding. I know.....BAD Pat! *sigh* (But will you still let me come there and eat spaghetti pie on a table covered with a neutral quilt???)
Your blogging is like a fun little comedy club for me...I so enjoy! Now on to the business of trying to win this week's giveaway without brown nosing, right?! The times I use bias binding are for quilts with curved borders, or because I want to see the plaid/stripe design of the fabric I'm using look more like a diagonal and also on quilts that I know will get ALOT of use and washed often. I was told long ago that bias binding wears better. I don't know if in my lifetime I will have used a quilt enough to see if this is actually true or not...but just in case I will bias bind. Now...as for all others to include wall quilts I go with the simple standard straight of grain and call it good! Binding is the best part of the quilt process to me! I just love to sit in the evening hand stitching the binding down to the backside of the quilt....taking that final stitch is somewhat sad but at same time I know I've got a finish.
Bias binding... always. OK... call me a snob.
Love the double disappearing nine patch.
Hello! I use bias for any project with a curve, such as oval placemats. I used straight of grain cuts for all other binding. Happy Stitching!
Thanks for sharing!
jldouglas@wispwest.net
I usually cut straight of grain for square/rectangular quilts and bias strips for anything with a curve, as well as bindings with a stripe to give a little more pizzazz. I love stripes, so bias strips are often my choice.
Oh your giveaways get better every week! And I fall in love with your book more each week - of course making me want it more each week! I do both ways of binding. I know that bias binding wears longer than the straight of grain binding, but a lot of times I have a print that I need on the straight of grain (like stripes) so then I do the straight of grain. But there are occasions where I put the stripes on bias and that makes it fun looking too! So bottom line - I do whichever way I feel like at the time!
I usually use straight of grain fabric for binding but if the fabric will look amazing cut on the bias I will do that rather - stripes cut on the bias look particularly good. Really, it's all about how the finished binding will look.
Great giveaway - would love to add both of those books to my collection.
I cut my bias on the straight of grain, and have no idea how to do bias binding. :)
I've used both. I like to use stripes on the bias! Great look. Thanks
I have done both. I understand it is probably better to use bias, but unless the edge is curved I use straight grain binding. Thanks for the chance on your wonderful giveaway.
I use straight cut binding (unless the edge is curved!)
I love the disappearing nine patch pattern you've used!
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I have always done the straight of grain bindings. Someday I want to make a quilt with a scalloped edge, and then I would venture over to the bias side. Thanks for a great giveaway!
Lovely quilt! I just took my first quilting class and our teacher said when we get to the binding just cut some strips..lol so i am thinking she means straight grain?
I do straight grain binding. I have a mental block against the bias, I just need to sit down and learn how to do a bias binding correctly. I love the double disappearing 9-patch!
sweet, I'm entering just for the cheetos! Although flaming hot are my favorite flavor... if you think orange cheetos are bad around quilts those red ones are TROUBLE!
I make my binding both ways. It usually depends on the effect I'm going for.
I make my binding from straight of grain strips. I'm a fairly new quilter, and just the THOUGHT of bias binding gives me the shivers. I'm a visual learner, and just reading the directions gives the heebie-jeebies.
Binding is my least favorite part of quilting, so I take the easy way out and cut it on straight of grain only. I recently heard that you don't even need to connect the strips on an angle, so I am thinking of making my binding life even simpler. This is an area in which I could use some more discipline. I'll be tuning back in to see what I can learn from you--I've already learned from your commenters.
wordygirl at earthlink dot net
I cut my binding on the straight of grain most of the time. I only cut in the bias if Im going to bind rounded corners. Hugs Ullis in Sweden
I usually go with straight of the grain. If the fabric is more interesting on the bias and if I have enough then I go with the bias. I let the fabric "talk" to me before deciding.
I use straight grain cut across the width of the fabric for most quilts. However (there's always an exception!), I will use bias if I have a check fabric as I like the movement it creates in the design.
I do bias binding for all of my quilts because some really wise, super knowledgeable lady that taught me to quilt said that was how I should do it. Hmmmm wonder who that wise, super knowledgeable, VERY ptient lady was???Oh wait it was YOU!!! I didn't know there was another way--you are the best teacher ever! Miss seeing ya'll at Thimbles!
It depends on the quilt and what it will be used for~ bias for quilts with scallops or will get lots of use; straight cuts for most wall hangings etc. Love the neutral quilts! Have a happy week!
Straight of grain double French fold 2.25 inches with quarter inch seam
Like the tip about making neutral quilts that will outlast fad color trends and choices!"
I generally just do straight grain. Binding is one of the things I actually enjoy about the quilting process. I find it really relaxing sewing on the binding.
Almost always a straight grain binding - the other takes too much thinking and time!!
I mostly do bias binding and I cut it the way you tought me in Stitching Sisters. I think you called it Grandpaws Britches.
Oh....what a fun giveaway....did I say fun? On the bias....is that wrong? Is this like school where if you give the wrong answer you have to go and stand in the corner? I don't like corners....Does it matter? Can't wait to hear your take on it.
Wow. I have no idea how to answer that question because I don't know the difference. Maybe next week you'll 'splain it to us?
I cut the binding on the bias. I good friend explained to me how it makes the edge of the quilt more durable. Instead of one long thread running along the very edge for the entire length of that strip of binding, by cutting on the bias there are many short threads. If one thread pops it does MUCH less damage to the quilt edge. That friend then showed me how to fold the fabric to cut that bias. I even did a demo video of it.
Friends are wonderful!
You had me at Cheetos! I'm new to quilting so I'm still figuring out technical terms, bias cuts, binding, etc. So I would have to say I have no idea, but hopefully one day soon I will! Looking forward to seeing your Neutrals book!
I can say that I've done bias binding (onetime) but it was kinda crazy stressful sewing the "roll" then trying to cut and keep it straight and not mess up. SO - I stick with straight/grain. So far - even on "used" quilts that has not been a issue. I guess it there would be quilt police invovled - I'd stress myself and do bias. But while I'm not stressing myself -I'd love to win your giveaway...for some therapy sewing time!!! Hint Hint - pick me please!
Uhhh...ahem.... this will be embarassing! I have made many, many quilts and my favorite "binding" is the method we call the 'potholder' method: Start a bit to the right of the middle of the bottom, and sew around all 4 sides, and a bit to the left of the middle of the bottom. Leave a hole for turning, carefully turn right side out, and hand sew the opening closed. Ulp...that was not as hard as I thought it would be! I know that quilters bind quilts, because otherwise the edges will wear before the center, but I honestly have never managed to wear out the edges of a quilt! (Maybe I am just lucky!)
I use straight of grain, double fold binding for most quilts and use bias for those quilts where I want a fancy, angled stripe on the binding or on edges with curves.
Love that quilt!
Back from CA-- maybe I can win this week. I almost always use bias binding-- you taught me!!!
Almost always bias binding for this gal. I am excited to try some of the neutral quilt patterns. What a great idea to give the neutral colored quilts as wedding gifts!
Straight of grain for me. Thanks for the great giveaways.
Straight of grain usually. I like a striped binding done on the bias, though. Thanks for the great giveaway!
I do straight strip, diagonal seam, double fold. If I ever do a scallop edge or want a diagonal striped binding, then I do at least know how to do a bias binding. I have never had a complaint about my bindings wearing out-even on much loved baby quilts. And like several others here, hand finishing the binding is my favorite part.
Hi from France
For my bias, it depends on the amount of fabric I own, but I try to avoid straight of grain .
I like the new neutral quilt you show us in this post.
Have a happy quilting day
I've only ever made straight bindings, but I know that if I was ever daft enough to make a quilt with a scalloped edge, I'd have to use a bias cut binding.
Love the group of goodies that you are giving way. I mostly use SOG binding, bias if there are any curves. Love the blog, happy quilting!!
Are you kidding me?..Always on straight of grain (unless I am using a straight stripe) and even when I want to use a stripe I look for one printed on the bias so I can cut on the straight. I tried cutting in the bias...and marking, sewing and cutting the 'tube'..neither of which is difficult...but who has the time for that??? I have more projects to get one to!...
I always cut my binding on the straight of the grain. Thanks for the giveaway! Your quilt this week is just beautiful! I'm really loving all these muted fabrics! :0)
I think I made maybe one bias binding in my life and then decided that cross grain strips worked out just as well. If I am really concerned about stability of the fabric and have enough fabric, I will use lengthwise grain strips.
Works for me....
Love the colors and yes, I would love to add an applique border........maybe acorns and oak leaves? So very pretty. blessings,Kathleen
I make all my binding on the straight of grain. I've never had a problem, yet. I've also never made a quilt with scalloped borders. Thanks for offering such wonderful goodies! ;->
Usually straight grain, unless the fabric is a wonderful stripe... that just looks so NEAT when cut on the bias!! Thanks for your wonderful give-aways!
Always the bias - that is what my mom taught me! thanks!
I really prefer to use a bias binding on quilts, and there have been a few tutorials on www.sewwequilt.com about binding lately. Thanks for the great giveaway. I've been eyeing your new book. Kd
www.KdQuilts.com
Always bais binding - cause that is what you taught me. So why would I do anything different.
I always make bias binding. I used to think it was a pain in the patootie to make, but now I enjoy the process. Why? I just think it fits better, and if it's a stripe or a plaid fabric it LOOKS better!
I cut my binding on the straight of the grain. In order to cut bias binding, I always have to go to the computer and look for a tutorial, and there seems to be differences in opinion on how it's done. Anyway, it takes me so long to figure it out I only do it when absolutely necessary...appliqued vines etc.
I'm new to quilting so I've only done straight cut binding as I don't totally understand how to do bias binding. I would love to learn how to cut on the bias. Thanks for an awesome giveaway! :)
Pleas don't enter me in the giveaway because I won last week!! I have just recently started making bias binding but it depends on the quilt and the usage it gets.
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