Quilt facing tutorial

Learn how to face a quilt with this step-by-step tutorial with photos. This technique reduces bulk in the corners and facings lay flat.

Complete your quilted wall hanging without a traditional binding

Every project requires you to assess what finishing techniques is best for that quilt. Single fold or double fold binding, … More

In this tutorial, I will show you how to add facing to your quilt as an excellent way to finish! Don't forget to watch the video tutorial too!

by Donna Hussain An advantage of belonging to a quilt circle is that group members share their quilting skills. In the past year I have le...

How do you finish your quilts? Skinny binding? Wide binding? Ever tried a facing? Facings are common for art quilts or wall hangings but I’ve even seen them used on your every day couch co…

Last week I posted a tutorial on facing quilts. Suzanne Sanger commented that she has used another facing method that I used to espouse, and wonders why I changed. Here's the answer. Several years ago, when I started to face my quilts instead of binding them, I developed a method that gave me flat corners instead of the lumps that occur when you turn back one side of the quilt, then turn back the adjacent side on top. The key was to slice off the bulky inner layers of the quilt -- the…

Facing — tutorials — Cotton & Bourbon

Quite often I think bindings can visually distract from an art quilt. Of course there are times when the binding integrates visually to the overall design of a quilt and is a necessary design element. But for my quilts I find a frame of color around the outside edge of the quilt to be distracting. I don't really like big wooden frames on painted canvases either, so I guess that is just my personal preference. So, when I make large art quilts, I like to make faced bindings, which creates a…