when putting binding on a blanket how do you do the corners?

Answer 1

Generally I sew it on across one side and pin the next leaving enough at the corner to fold back over the place just sewn.

Answer 2

I don't know about blankets, but for most (rectangular) quilts the process is usually to sew one long edge of the binding (or doubled binding) to the back side of the quilt, then do a funny little stitch/stop/fold up/turn thing at each corner (see bottom of this page for a diagram:
http://www.quilterscache.com/StartQuiltingPages/startquiltingfive.html )

Then when the whole binding strip has been sewed to the back side, the rest of the binding is turned over onto the front side of the quilt and hand-sewed or machine-sewed down. At the corners, there will be "extra" length in the strip which can be folded to create a nice mitered corner (not the same as the "pre-mitered" strips mentioned in the first answer though).
A slightly different way to fold the corner on the front side is this one:
http://www.craftandfabriclinks.com/TIPS/assemblebindqlt.html
this one will result in a butted miter rather than the overlapped miter I usually do.

(if the corners aren't square but rounded, etc., then the binding is usually just sewed and worked to fit since it will probably have been cut on the bias and be somewhat stretchable)


HTH,

Diane B.

Answer 3

Go on line and use your search engin. Search "sew binding for quilt". I could tell you but you are going to need a picture. Either that or contact your local quilt guild. they would love to show you.

Good luck.

Answer 4

There are a couple of different ways to do it but the mitered corner is a good basic technique to try.

See it here:

http://www.theartfulcrafter.com/sew.html

Click on crafts, letters, mitered strips to see text and diagrams on how to do it.