Have You Ever Wondered How Quilters Stitch the Perfect Piping into Their Quilts?

Using Susan's Groovin' Piping Trimming Tool, and Her Excellent Instructions, You, too, Can Add Perfect Piping to Your Binding - or Even Between Patches in Your Quilt.

From: Penny Halgren

Greetings,

Quilting daughter, Stephanie, and I love quilt shows - especially when we discover quilting tools we have never seen before.

This year's Portland Quilt Show was a full of treasures. And our upcoming interview with Susan Cleveland is another highlight of our adventure.

I'll admit, I've seen lots of quilts with piping. And, I've thought about adding piping to a quilt. But, thinking about it is as far as it got.

I couldn't figure out how to get the cording inside the fabric without creating uneven edges or too short a seam allowance. And I knew that if the seam allowance wasn't big enough, it would fray, and then I would have a quilt with frazzled fabric and white cording coming out - kind of like my chair cushion that the dog chewed on.

In any case, when Stephanie and I talked to Susan, she explained how her tool made it easy to create piping and her instructions made it really clear how to make the piping and stitch it into a quilt. So, I decided to give it a whirl.

This seemed like a perfect project for a UFO (Un-Finished Object), and I have plenty of them! I dug deep in the box and found pieces from the Robin's Nest Wall Hanging, stitched 3 patches together to make the center pieces of a simple 9 patch, and was ready to go.

Since I don't plan too far ahead in my quilt construction (hmmm - that may be the problem), I read each step and then did what it said to do - none of this "read through all of the instructions, then start at the beginning."

And following Susan's very easy-to-understand directions, I was able to add the orange piping to my quilt block and then add binding to finish it.

It's a simple little piece, and the piping is great!

And it was just as easy as Susan said it would be.

As a matter of fact, I was so excited that I took a look at some of the other suggestions she had for piping. Pieced piping sounds like fun for a future quilt.

Now I am really looking forward to talking to Susan and hearing how she came up with the idea for the Groovin' Trimming Tool and what else she does to give her quilts spark.

In the instructions, she talks about using rick-rack, double piping, piping with larger cording, and even adding prairie points. I can hardly wait.

Susan will join us in our August Eavesdrop on a Telephone Conversation this Thursday, August 14 beginning at 5pm Pacific Time.

This is a free call, and you will get a chance to ask Susan your question about piping, binding and even thread embellishments.

In our Conversation on Thursday, Susan will share her secrets so we will know:

This was a great call with some excellent information. Right off the bat, Susan told us that one way to make it easy to sew piping was to use a special foot on your sewing machine that has a groove in it. There are several possibilities, and she mentioned a few. Click on the button below to hear her suggestions:

In the meantime, watch a short clip to see how to add piping to the binding around your quilt using Susan's Groovin' Binding Tool:

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Using This Resource, Your Binding Worries Will be Over Forever, and All of Your Binding will be Beautiful and Easy to Make.

You will see and learn how to add beautiful piping to your quilt in addition to learning the secrets of adding perfect bias binding with mitered corners, as well as 5 other ways to bind a quilt.

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Happy Quilting!

Penny Halgren

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