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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Adding the Fused Binding

Continuing on with my "Light in the Forest" piece, it is time for trimming and adding the binding. Last week, I showed the hand dyed, block printed binding fabric. It has fusible web (Mistyfuse) attached to the back.
I cut the binding strips with scissors to make them slightly irregular.


The binding was first fused to the front of the trimmed quilt, then I folded it to the back and fused it to back as well.

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5 comments:

  1. Anne-Marie B.Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 9:55:00 AM MST

    Hi Cynthia!

    I love the back fabric. Did you print the frogs yourself? If so, how did you proceed? By the way, I think adding the birds was a good idea, they are lovely!

    Thanks
    Anne-Marie

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  2. Cynthia St CharlesWednesday, January 11, 2012 at 12:38:00 PM MST

    I usually use commercial fabric for my backings. I am very slowly getting my stash used up! The frog fabric probably was purchased 15 years ago!

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  3. Rachel ParrisWednesday, January 11, 2012 at 5:08:00 PM MST

    what do you do at the corners?

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  4. Rachel ParrisWednesday, January 11, 2012 at 5:09:00 PM MST

    What do you do with the corners on your binding?

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  5. Cynthia St CharlesThursday, January 12, 2012 at 1:29:00 PM MST

    For this piece, I trimmed the binding even with the corner for both sides of the corner. I have just tried mitering the corners on a new piece. When I get around to putting that one on the blog, I will do a tutorial on the mitered corner technique (I learned it from Robbie Joy Ecklow's book).

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