Video 14: Pillowcases

A fun and easy way to make pillowcases for everyone on your holiday gift list. This tubing technique will hide all those seams. Read more

Video 13: Squaring Up Your Blocks

There are certain types of blocks that you have to be very precise on. Others you can square down to make them all consistent. In Video 13, I’ll show you how to make all your blocks Read more

Video 12: Borders

Here’s a refresher on how to put a border on to your quilt top. Adding your borders properly will make your quilt lay straight. No wavy quilts if you follow these instructions. Read more

Video 9: Raw Edge Fusible Applique, Part 1

In raw edge applique, you will trace, cut, fuse and stitch to your background. Read more

Video 8: The Dreaded Binding, Part 3

Once you have machine stitched your binding to the right side of the quilt, Read more

Video 7: The Dreaded Binding, Part 2

In Video 6, I showed you how to get mitered corners. Once you have sewn all 4 corners, you’ll need to join the ends to get a smooth finish. This week’s video shows you how. Overlapping the ends of the binding by 1 7/8″ your binding will sit flat. We are working with a 2″ strip. The formula is size of the binding strips minus an 1/8″ = your overlap measurement. Example: 2″- 1/8″ = 1 7/8″. If your binding is 2 1/2″ strip your overlap will be 2 3/8″.

Video 6: The Dreaded Binding, Part 1

The next three videos will show you how to sew on a binding using a 2″ strip. In video 6 you’ll see how easy turning a corner can be using the Perfect Binding Miter Tool.

Video 5: How to Join Strips for Borders and Bindings

Joining your strips on a diagonal makes the seam almost invisible. On a binding the bulk of the seam is distributed making the binding sit even throughout the quilt.

Video 4: Squaring Up Your Quilt

As you get ready for binding, it’s important that the quilt is straight. Our fourth video shows how to cut around your quilt making it ready for binding.

A special thank you to Karen Reardon for letting us use her quilt, “Sunshine and Shadows” for the demonstration!

Meeting Perfect Points

Aimee shows you how to get perfect matching seams.

You may notice that I’m using Vimeo for this video. Vimeo is similar to YouTube, but seems to handle HD videos more easily. I’ve posted to YouTube also, but the audio gets out of sync at the end.

Be sure to watch ’til the end … I added a little outtake .

Meeting Perfect Points from overallquilter on Vimeo.

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