SEW Fun! A Choice of Different Baby Quilt Binding
When I finish a baby quilt top, then there are a number of factors to consider when choosing the best possible way to finish the baby quilt.
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SEW Complicated – The Challenges in Making a Baby Quilt Binding
As a quilter there are many challenges you face when designing, sewing and ultimately quilting your finished baby quilt. Here are the 5 most important steps that you need to complete before the baby quilt can be proudly given as a gift or used to snuggle around your little one. But it the baby quilt binding, that most quilters struggle with. Here are a few tips that might help:
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Many people who see my baby quilts, especially those who sew, ask me the about making my quilt bindings.
Since my entire baby quilts are made with 100 percent baby flannel, which gives them the cuddly soft touch. With proper machine wash and dry, the baby quilt will only become softer with time. The binding needs to hold up overtime with the baby’s love and in the wash.
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The wonderful children’s book, I Spy, captures the attention of the young and the young at heart for hours on end. To put that concept into a baby quilt that will not only give opportunities for many cuddles. I have just finished hand quilting my latest, an “ I Spy” baby quilt. What an excellent learning opportunity and a soft baby quilt for the floor.
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SEW What?
Advertising, getting my business out in the community, and having the Moms and Grandmothers see my beautiful handmade baby quilts has always been the most difficult step of my business, Unique Baby Quilt Boutique.
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A new baby quilt is finish, but what binding do I choose?
Before I pull out my fabrics and decide my colors, the method of binding for by baby quilt needs to be considered first.
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Did you ever see a baby start to learn to try to roll over? Of course this proud Grandmother watched her new grandson perform this feat for the first time, yesterday, over the Internet using the Skype. How magnificent to have the technologies to be able to capture those first moments that would otherwise have gone unseen due to the miles that come between grandmother and grandson. Yet today, this proud grandmother is not only able to witness the first but be able to record this significant event to be enjoyed over again, over and over.
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Grandma was always right on her secret advice for use of color in a baby quilt, so here are a few more suggestions she revealed about color choices for your next baby quilt.
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Another new day is an opportunity for Mother Nature to turn her colors back on and for Grandma that meant designing a baby quilt.
There is an endless possibility of color and fabric choices available to quilters. Grandma’s advice will lead you to mix and match, blend and complement the colors and fabrics that will best fit your baby quilt pattern.
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