My Best Tips for Making a Quilt Binding at Home

Making a quilt binding is usually the part of a project where I feel a weird mix of total exhaustion and pure excitement. You've spent weeks, maybe even months, picking fabrics, cutting pieces, and wrestling that heavy quilt sandwich through your machine. You're so close to the finish line that you can almost feel yourself curling up under it with a good book. But before that happens, you've got to wrap those raw edges in a way that looks clean and, more importantly, stays put after a few trips through the wash. ...

February 16, 2026 · 7 min · Thierry Baez