As we finish up the year and the decade, I thought it would be useful to look back at one of my favorite ways of finishing my quilts. Back in the early 2000’s, I needed a binding method that didn’t “box in” my quilted images with a hard border. After giving it some thought I decided that continuing to use my scraps of fabric, but collaging them around the quilted and trimmed edge, was the answer. And using glue, as I had used while collaging the quilt, seemed like the logical choice for adhering those scraps. One of my quilts where I’ve used this binding technique on, is a very large butterfly entitled “Exuberance,” the scrap-bound corner of which is pictured above.
Read more about that “turn and glue” binding in this TBT. Then on Saturday in your regular blog post, see how a few fabric collage followers have finished off their quilts in the latest edition of the Fabric Collage Finish Line. These quilts were all submitted online—many by people who have never taken a class with me—having instead learned through my books, blog posts, or the Master Class Manual.
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