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Free Tutorial - Peculiar Corners
This is Trickle Or Treacle, one of my Goth Baby Quilts, and the blocks, which are made up of six identical triangles each time, are cut from one fabric (apart from that odd one in the middle. (This type of block is called a One Block Wonder, and they are great fun to make from slightly unlikely fabric)
Anyway, I didn't want to lose those lovely ziggy ends, so I had to bind in and out corners.
I started by making lots of nice stripey binding, cut to 2-1/2 inches, folded right-side-out.
And this is a sample, so you can see what I was doing I made an oddment of quilted fabric and cut an innie and an outie
As always, trim the edges of your quilted and blocked quilt exactly where you want them to finish
Starting with a shallow outer corner...
Match the raw edges of the folded binding and the edge of the quilt. Start in the middle of a straight edge, not on a corner.
Fold the binding where it meets the tip of the corner, and crease firmly with your finger
Note that the edge of the quilt and the folded-out binding head in exactly the same direction
I have marked the crease with pencil so you can see it. Sew exactly to this line, back-tack and take the work out of the machine
Fold the binding back, making sure the crease matches the corner nicely, and sew again from the outer edge...
When you turn the binding to the back it will form the usual neat mitre as shown, sew down by hand (you can do this upside down, sew on the back and finsh on the front, of course)
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