Tuesday Tutorial: Finish Quilt Edges with Facing for a Clean Crisp Look | McCall’s Quilting Blog
Traditional quilt binding is by no means the only way to finish the edges of your projects! Prairie points, ruffles, ruched binding, flanged binding, piped binding, extra-wide binding that looks like a border…all these techniques are possible and so many more.
One of my favorite ways to finish the edges of more contemporary-looking quilts, or any quilt where I don’t want a binding to show at all, is facing strips. I most recently used this technique to finish the edges of my Modern Links queen size quilt (below). Because the chain pattern extends up to (and past) the quilt edges, a traditional binding would have stopped the eye and ruined the effect. Facing strips were the answer.
Contributing editor Laura Stone Roberts recently taped a video that included instruction for finishing quilt edges with facing strips. This week’s Tuesday Tutorial is a quick recap of the technique with photos pulled from the video. Enjoy!
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