Pick right on the edge, or just back from the edge to be extra safe you won't miss a spot on the back. If you have a machine with an adjustable needle – easy! Clip on the foot to your machine and adjust your needle to exactly where you want to stitch your binding. I found this way less fiddly by loading the whole sandwich at once. Remove the top pin, slide the foot back to where you want to start sewing and you are all set. Turn the lower wheel to move the right-hand guide snugly up against the fold of the binding. Make sure the front and the back are lying in the guides smoothly. Now slide the foot in place around the whole sandwich, between those pins, and position the edges of the binding in the little guides on the left. Near to the start of where you want to sew, pin or clip the binding to the fabric/quilt as if it were ready to sew, with a gap of 3 or 4 inches between your pins. Move the guide over to the right so you can open up the jaws easily. This time instead of loading the binding first and then the fabric after, I pinned the binding to the fabric and loaded it into the foot all in one go. ![]() I found this one easier personally, so try each and see which you prefer. Slip the foot and binding up to the start of the edge to be bound. ![]() Push the edge right up to the fold of the binding. Now open up the jaws with your fingers and slide in the item/fabric/garment/quilt to be bound. ![]() This is how it should look with the fabric top and bottom separated and held by the little plastic guides.Īdjust that bottom wheel until the guide now moves over snugly to the folded edge of the binding so that the binding is held in place smoothly between the left and right edges, but without puckering. Separate the open edges and slide both the top and bottom edges inside the little tabs on the left of the jaws. Feed in the binding tape with the open edge on the left and the fold on the right. Now at this point, some tutorials I have read suggest feeding in your binding first and you can certainly try this and see if you get on OK that way.īinding first method. This allows the upper and lower piece of the ‘jaws' to open up more easily. Open up the lower wheel to move the guide over to the right-hand side. Just turning that wheel until the binding is snug is more important than using a number as a guide I think. Mine has numbers printed on indicating the width of the binding, but you don't really need the numbers. The plastic parts are flexible, especially when that lower wheel is turned to the wider setting so that they can be opened wide to allow the fabric and binding sandwich to be put together. This controls a sliding guide that runs along the length of the binding as you sew and keeps it snugly in place against the guides for perfect stitching. One so that you can adjust the position of the foot itself and slide it left or right and then another wheel that adjusts the width of the clear part of the foot that holds the length of binding. For now, we'll assume we have to add binding to a straight edge and will do it in a single pass, sewing front and back at the same time (perfectly). With some practice you can also use it to get neatly mitered corners too – maybe once I get a bit more practice, a new how-to will follow to show you my tips for doing that. It works with bias binding and is perfect for use around gentle curves and circles, and it also works with straight-cut binding for straight edges too. The binding foot is adjustable so that it can deal with varying widths of binding. This is a revelation! I now worship the binding foot and have been making up all sorts of little bits and pieces to add some binding onto. There is one, in particular, I wanted to share with you, the Binding Foot. I'm never one for worrying too much about the accuracy of my sewing so these are certainly helping me get a great finish on all of my test pieces.Īwesome set of presser feet with so much all-in-one set for an excellent price. ![]() If you get frustrated putting on binding because you sometimes miss catching the back of the binding and get little gaps – you need this article! Never miss the back again and get perfectly straight stitching – learn how to use the Binding Foot.ĭo you remember that lovely big box of sewing feet I bought? I've been gradually working my way through them a bit at a time, with varying degrees of success.
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