Aurora Sisneros

Triangle Quilt Session 6: The Final Stitch

Aurora Sisneros
Duration:   12  mins

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Now that the binding is all sewn on, it’s time to pin to do the very last stitch! Aurora will show how you can really only do 1 corner at a time since you are limited by pins.

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We made it. It's time for the final stitch. So we have our binding all attached, I'm going to go ahead and trim my batting and my backing off and I'm going to trim it right to the edge of my binding. So if some of my top quilt is showing through I'm gonna cut that too. That's perfectly fine but I don't really wanna cut any of my binding.

Now, the reason that I like to wait until now to trim, is simply because I know that I have all of this extra and it won't get folded under so easily and I won't miss it because I can see it. So the only thing I have to concentrate on not missing is the top quilt. And we mitigate that by putting our binding against the edge of the top quilt, but scooching it in just a smidge so that you can see the edge. Now you don't have to do it that way. If you would like to trim this up before you sew your binding on, that's perfectly appropriate too.

But I find that I get a little better results when I know where all of the layers are. All right, so we're gonna trim all this up. And now we are going to flip our fantastic binding to the other side of the quilt, and we're going to pin like crazy. So I'm gonna turn the quilt over, okay? I'm going to identify where my seam is right here.

Okay? You can kind of see on the brown of this bird a little bit, there's a seam right there. I want to make sure that this covers that, just like that, okay? I am going to stitch in the ditch on the front side of this quilt. That means that seam that I just showed to you, that is going to be very close to where I'm sewing.

So if my binding does not cover that, I know for a fact I will miss it and I don't want any holes. All right, we're coming up on a corner here. I'm just going to continue to pin, until I get to my corner. I'm gonna pin just like that. And now, I'm gonna pull the rest of this side over so I have it to work with.

I like to take a pin, and put it right there on the edge, just like that, okay? It kind of holds everything nice and flat. Then I'm gonna take this, and I'm gonna fold it over gently. Oh my gosh! Look at that super cute mitered corner.

Now I got to press the whole thing in place, and attempt to get a pin in there really quick before everything moves out of the way. Whew! I did it. Okay, so now I'm gonna turn. Now, you are going to use a lot of pins when you're doing this on a large size quilt.

In fact, you might not have enough pins to get all the way around. So, what I like to do is, pin it kind of like you see here. See how I have half of a side and a corner done? Then you can put this under the machine, back stitch, sew, back stich, pull it out, and then go pin the other sides and the other corner, okay? So you can do it in four pieces.

Now this quilt is small enough that I can just do the whole thing with the set of pins that I have here, which is nice. Now there are other methods, some of those, you know, those clips that I used earlier to hold the quilt into place, those clips you can use to hold your binding into place. You can also use, there's a type of basting tape that you can use, it's like a double sided sticky tape. You can use that. But I just like the traditional method of pinning because then I know nothing's gonna slip.

Now there's a lot of layers to sew through. You can kind of see I'm not really putting in my pins straight. They're kind of off to the side, that way I can get through it a little easier. Okay, here's my join. Now, I have a little bit of the tail sticking out of this join, so I'm just gonna clip it like this.

Clip the little corner off. Clip that little corner off. That way when I fold it over, then those don't poke out. Now, the other thing I'm doing, is I'm not putting my pin all the way through the layers into the mat below. You don't really have to.

You just have to get a pin through the binding, and through like maybe a little bit of the batting, the fuzz, the guts. Okay? Just get a little pin in there and that will be plenty enough to hold your binding into place. All right, so I'm getting to another corner. I'm gonna get the pin really close to the corner, I'm gonna do my little shortcut here.

Put the pin right along the edge. Fold that right over. Get that right in there. Okay? Oops!

See I didn't get it through the guts. Gotta get it through a little bit of the fuzz. There we go. That's in there. I'm gonna keep going.

Now you'll notice over here there's a join right in that corner. That is rather unlucky. That has only happened to me, I think three times in all the years that I've made quilts. So, it's fine you don't need to do anything about it, it just might be a little bulky to get through. So sometimes when you're sewing those bulky places, your foot will get high centered on them and you just have to pull on the backside of the quilt a little bit to kind of pull it through underneath the foot and get it going again.

So when you have a very scrappy binding that's a pretty big risk because you have a lot of joints. So sometimes they end up in the corner like that, but it really isn't a big deal. All right, we've got our last corner right here. Let me get this guy pinned. All right.

We have the whole thing pinned, and now your quilt looks like a porcupine. We are going to flip it over, and sew on the front side. This is why I have so many pins in here. It's really imperative that you cover that seam to get all of that covered since you're gonna be sewing blind. All right.

Here we go! Oh my gosh. Look how cute it is. Our scrappy binding is adorable, let's sew. We are going to sew on the quilt as close to the binding as we can possibly get, all the way around.

I like to start in the middle of one long side, okay? Like this. That way I have plenty of room to do my back stitch, when I get all the way back around. So I'm gonna change my stitch length to probably about three, maybe three and a half, so we can get through all the layers, here I go. All right.

Getting close to the corner. I'm gonna just walk forward so I can get my needle right in that corner. I'm gonna sink my needle, lift my foot, pivot my quilt lower, off we go on the next side. All right, next corner, pivot. Third corner.

Let's get right in there. Fantastic. Pivot. Fourth corner. Get right in the corner, pivot.

Okay. I'm coming up on my original stitch right where I started. I'm gonna drive over it, and then I'm gonna do a back stitch. All right, let's pull it out. See how that works.

Trim our threads. Off of the back as well, okay. Now we can pull all of our pins out and see the detail that that scrappy binding adds. It's just so cute. Now also, we don't have any pink in here, so it would be cool if you did a pink binding all the way around, that would not be a big deal either but let's get these pins out so we can see how we did on the back side.

Now, even though this is a small quilt, this is exactly the same process that I did with the big one right here. All right. So, if we turn it over and we look right up here, you can see we folded it very nicely because we cut all of our edges all along here, and around both corners. And now your whole quilt is encased in a beautiful binding, and you have made your very first half square triangle quilt. And it was so easy.

I hope you've enjoyed this half square triangle adventure as much as I did. I absolutely love using this technique to make throw pillows, quilts obviously. They're so versatile that you can use several different sizes. I really hope that you enjoy making these and you experiment with layouts, and you have a wonderful half square triangle adventure yourself.

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