Quick Binding Clips

Stitching the binding on your quilt can be one of the greatest joys of your project for several reasons: (1) - Cutting and stitching to binding to the quilt is not that difficult, (2) - Tacking the binding on by hand is something to enjoy if you love doing handwork (and I do, don't you? :)) and (3) - the greatest reason of all - If you are stitching the binding, it means you are almost finished with your quilt!

Tacking the binding on by hand after you have already stitched it to the front of the quilt is not too difficult, although it can be time consuming! When I am hand tacking my binding I like to put straight pins in the quilt edge to hold the binding and mitered corners in place as I am stitching.

This works great except for two major problems - (1) the thread I am stitching with tends to get caught and wrapped around the pins and (2) pins have a sharp point (they are supposed to, you know!) and when you have 10-20 pins in a quilt, you are bound to get stuck a few times!

What's the solution? Quilt binding clips! I discovered quilt binding clips several months ago and have greatly enjoyed using them for holding down my quilt binding. The binding clips consist of a metal clip that you can easily clip over the edge of your quilt.

Not only are they quick and easy to clip on your quilt, but they contain no sharp points or edges! I can put binding clips over an area of my quilt and stitch the binding or I can even put in binding clips all the way around before stitching. They have a holding grip and will grip the fabric until you remove them. Plus no sharp points or thread tangling to worry about! :)

Give these useful binding clips a try!