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Randomly Rebinding a Quilt

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Now that I’ve learned a new binding technique (shared in the post “Completed: Farm Girl Vintage Quilt (and trying a new quilt binding technique)“) I’m not afraid to take on UNNECESSARY (RE)BINDING PROJECTS – ha!

I decided to “re-bind” a wallhanging size quilt I made years ago from a panel that I have hanging in a little alcove in the stairwell from the main floor to the basement:

I put the quilt together fairly quickly and did simple quilting on it years ago. I put a quick binding on it using the same Stonehenge fabric I used for the border of the quilt.

This binding has irritated me for years. I felt like I should have used black fabric to binding it, which would “frame” the piece. I have lots of pictures in black frames next to the wallhanging and it just seemed like a black binding was what the quilt needed to pull the whole alcove together.

So one day on impulse I cut the old border off and put on a new border!

I like it MUCH better and now it frames the wallhanging!

(By the way, the photos underneath are travels/adventures that John and I have experienced together since we met 6 years ago.)

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23 thoughts on “Randomly Rebinding a Quilt”

  3. Oh it fits so perfectly with the framed photos now! Good for you, that’s one of those jobs that some of us would have put off forever 😁

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