When I was at the International Quilt Festival back in November, I listened to a short lecture by Sue Heinz of Kismet Quilts.
She is a vivacious speaker and, in her short presentation, she provided many ideas for making your quilts better and better!
One of the things that she talked about was using glue in your quilts, except she wouldn’t use the word “glue”. Instead she “Elmer-ed” her quilts!!
She suggested that we check out Sharon Schamber’s video for using Elmer to obtain perfect binding.
I started watching the first video (approximately 10 minutes), then discovered that it went straight into another 10 minute video and finally into a third.
BUT, in those three videos, Sharon presented many great ideas for perfecting your quilt binding, and I thought that you might enjoy it as well.
Start here……
….and it should take you into the other videos.
If you are reading this post via email, you can click this link to go straight to the YouTube video… https://youtu.be/4PE0Yq9iGlc?si=N-NDt8ap6TCM9OXS
While at the show, I purchased a fine-tip that will fit on the Elmer bottle, but you could also use a bottle similar to these…..
I do want to try this technique at some point, but first I have to get a quilt finished!!!!
If you have applied binding in this manner before, please let me know your experience.
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I really needed this! Doing binding on a double ring wedding quilt. Hope it saves me!
Oh WOW……are you doing a curved binding around the rings? I can imagine that gluing would be the best way to do that. I would love to see it when you are finished.
I have tried washable school glue to baste binding in place. It works but it is tedious and I feel I must launder the quilt immediately afterwards. I have a compromise method for larger quilts that I don’t want to launder immediately and that I may or may not bind by hand. I glue just the corner miters in place and profusely clip the rest of the binding. Binding clips in boxes of 100 are inexpensive on Amazon or the clothing district supplier, WAWAK. I may choose to use a decorative stitch on the Janome 9400 or hand stitch the binding down. Sometimes, I use the Juki 2010 to finish binding on small quilts or wallhangings. I have to remember to sew the binding on the back and flip to the front but I sometimes forget and the Janome 9400 gets the job.
I was concerned that it would be tedious to do the entire binding so I am glad to hear this from you. I do like the idea of using it to hold the tough spots in place. I also use my Juki 2010 to finish it off and was given a “left compensating foot” for Christmas. I HOPE that it will make that final pass around the quilt easier!! I have to get something finished so I can try out these new things!! I love that you have lots of different ways to finish them off…..variety is a good thing!
Hey Frances I watched all three videos and also realized her videos are 16 yrs old. Amazing I haven’t seen this prior to now.
I will most likely try her method. But it will b on a small quilt.
I knew that they were older but I didn’t realize they were THAT old!! I always enjoyed her teaching….back when I used to buy DVD’s with her machine quilting instructions!! Let me know if you try it!!