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Good morning, Pat! I put my binding in a snack ziploc bag with a note with the name of the quilt on it. I also have a quilting notebook with every quilt having a project page with all the information on it, including the finished top size and the date.
I keep my binding fabric or ready to go binding with the project and the remaining fabrics until I attach it. At that time I process the “scraps” that are left and all is finished.
I actually made a huswif based on an original from a collection in a museum. I keep my favorite hand needles and my thimble in it. It has a few little pockets that I keep other tools too.
I kept forgetting something similar like that. I decided to keep a small pad of paper by my machine and wrote a list, and because it was where I sat to sew, I saw it. As I used it, I marked it off my list. This is also how I remember where I stop on quilt patterns. I will either write it down or mark it on the pattern. I got tired of reading the pattern trying to figure out where I stopped. It took up too much of my sewing time.
Oh Pat that cross stitch is so stinking cute!! Humm..do I have time to do it for Halloween this year? I think not but next year for sure. Beautiful Peace and Quilt quilt!
Getting caught up on your videos. I cut my binding and put in a baggie and pin to the quilt top. I put the top with the backing and just need to roll out the batting when I decide to quilt. I also got in the habit of marking the "top" of the quilt top and backing when my husband did the quilting. This process helped me keep everything together for each project.
Longarmer Tammie Ernest offers the service of stitching the binding on so when you get it back from her all to do is turn to the back and stitch it down! Nice eh. History of Sewing books are fascinating ❤. For a class in sewing silk I made mine into an 18th century pocket. I plan to wear it with modern outfits eg: 👖 so it can be seen.
That “book nook” book was wonderful. I make my binding and keep it in the project box or in a plastic bag with a label . I don’t usually have too many projects going at once so that helps me too! Love seeing tour video every day.
I love the segment about adjusting processes. You don’t need to have the perfect most efficient process in the world, you need a process that fits YOUR thinking. It is easier to change a process than to change your brain. :) I have a small closet in my sewing room with a hang bar and hangers. I drape the pressed backing,top, and cut/pieced borders on the flat of a hanger and loop the binding around the neck as each is ready. The binding stays on the hanger until the quilt comes back from the longarmer or until I have finished quilting. That way I can see at a glance which quilts have binding made and how many quilts are with the longarmer (I send in batches of 3-7). I might experiment with matching the number of hangers tot he number of project boxes to regulate how many projects I have in progress at a time…. 🤔
Good afternoon Pat. Finding my binding is a pinch point for me too. I started out making it early, after cutting the quilt pieces, but no matter how I stored it, it went walk about in my sewing room. Now, I keep my uncut binding fabric in the project bin with the unsandwiched quilt top and make it up after sandwiching, then it goes back into the project bin until I’m ready for it. Finding a process that works can be such a challenge. But once you do, life gets so much easier. Just a thought from the peanut gallery. 🤗
When I make binding, I drop it in a dedicated half-drawer by my machine. No scraps, just ready bindings. Only a small space is needed. They're too lumpy, get creased, get lost, or fall in between things while traveling with the top or sandwich, and by travel I mean just within my home lol. Bagging, tagging, anything else requires time, materials & energy which I can redirect elsewhere. Your mileage may vary ;-)
I make my binding as soon as I finish the quilt top. I put it with the bin with the remnants of the fabrics of that project so I know what it belongs to and it stays there until the quilt comes back from the long armer. I try to sew the machine part of the binding within a week of getting it back from the LA, but the hand stitching will wait a while.
My friends and I ran into that also. So now we always make binding, keep it in a bag with the top, once it's quilted it's still together as I quilt my own. Never lost. My other friend doesn't always do it that way and ends up making a new binding.
I cut and sew my bindings when quilt top is done, ready to go to longarmer. I keep them rolled up in a square crafting box and either pin a sticky on for what project it goes with or if large roll of binding, in a zippy bag. this way all bindings are in one place and ready to sew once project is back from longarmer. I have these bins for machine quilting supplies and paper piecing too, that way everything I need is in one spot.
I was listening to this video yesterday (Oct. 15) and the housewifs sounded a lot like this sew-along I heard about a few years ago. It was for a pocket you could sew up and tie to your waistband. I don't remember what the "official" name of them were. Thinking about the two and I realized that fanny packs must be the updated version of them because I often wear a fanny when I'm outside and need an extra something when I'm romping out in the woods or around the homestead and feel the need to have a secure pocket.
Such a cool book! I love the history of sewing and hand stitching. I don’t know how those women sewed by candlelight tho! I have a drawer right next to my machine that only my binding goes in!!
I'm intrigued by the history and beauty of the little pockets. I wonder what they will find about us in a few hundred years😊. I've found that if I make bindings while making the top I'm more likely to get the binding on right after it is quilted. I try to keep it in a labeled plastic bag with the quilt top and backing. And ooooh those London quilt blocks peeking out behind you! I'm loving the challenge while savoring the childhood memories of living just outside London.
I so love those rolls especially the beautiful velvet my Nanna made a velvet crazy quilt wall hanging with her beautiful embroidery so would love to make one like she made some day, the book is amazing❤
Love the history of sewing rolls. My mom had one for her knitting needles 😊. I’m a process person too and analysis is a good thing as it shows we are still growing and are flexible in our thinking. Cheers to you,Pat!🎉🎉🎉
Such a neat book about sewing history. I usually make the binding while sewing the quilt top then I attach it to the quilt top with a safely pin and it’s labeled just in case it gets separated from the quilt top. (Longarming it)
Boy o boy, you got my number!🤣. I prep the binding when the top is done. I wrap in a loose roll, secure in the middle with painter’s tape and write something on the tape to cue my memory. It’s taken me a while, but this works for me!
Thank you for sharing that history book. What fun sewing rolls. I use rolls for my colored pencils but not for my sewing tools. Some beautiful rolls. I also did not know about the huswif term. Thanks again.
I have dipped my toe back into the counted cross stitched world. I did it back in the 80’s and there are just so many cute patterns.❤❤. And thank you for asking them about those coffee charts! I love the!!
What if you put your premade bindings in a clear container? Really clear acrylic container, like the ones they sell for kitchen or bathroom supplies so that you can see it? Maybe put it in a more visible space? Maybe if it's not out of sight, it won't be out of mind?
i don't think that will help. It is not a visual issue, it's a process issue. I know that basket is there, I don't need it taking up my limited counter space for use once a month or so. the process will get changed and that will fix it for my brain
For your binding place a note/card that states what project it's for, then on your basket make a list of what bindings are in it. As you use the bindings cross them off the list.
I'm getting caught up on videos, but started watching from today & will go back. I just thought about having a dry erase board somewhere & when making the binding for a certain quilt, write it on there & where it's stored.
The orange and purple fabrics are lovely. Ÿes to having a "process"! I almost used a fabric I had purchased for a quilt binding! ?? Please, on counted cross stich. I bought a counted cross stitch with the lovely print on it. The fabric is super stiff. Do I still use a "hoop" on it?
I cut my binding out when I cut out the Quilt. I know it’s hard to remember it. I put a note in the Quilt of a bright color. Just a reminder that I have it. We have way too much going on. I don’t know how you can keep up! 😳😱❤️
You have the right idea. But, pockets were separate pieces of clothing back then. They were considered underwear. They tied around the waist over the under petticoats. That’s how Lucy lost her pocket. It must have come untied.
Hi Pat..I'm by now means organized here on my side with binding but I was just wondering if you were a list keeper or something.lile that. Maybe you could have a spreadsheet that you would check before it goes to the quilter that would have your quilt listed and your binding listing along with the location listed of the binding???
I love every one of your videos I try to see them on time but some I save till evening to see. Your the best I've learned a lot from you. Thank you so much for everything you do.
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::Banner Kits - Leaf shrsl.com/4ouba and all the patterns not anywhere else all the kits shrsl.com/4l2je
::Coffee Cross stitch shrsl.com/4pggs
::Shelf life Cross stitch shrsl.com/4pggt
I understand the Barbie thing, brings back such fond memories 😊
Happy I caught you today. Thanks for showing the book, looks like a very impressive collection of Housewifes. Hugs!
Good morning, Pat! I put my binding in a snack ziploc bag with a note with the name of the quilt on it. I also have a quilting notebook with every quilt having a project page with all the information on it, including the finished top size and the date.
I do the same thing with my bindings because it’s usually quite a while before I can get it sewn on.
So cool to see what people made 150 years ago. Amazing decorative hand stitching! Love it.
I keep my binding fabric or ready to go binding with the project and the remaining fabrics until I attach it. At that time I process the “scraps” that are left and all is finished.
I make my binding when I finish the quilt top and store it in a basket.
I actually made a huswif based on an original from a collection in a museum. I keep my favorite hand needles and my thimble in it. It has a few little pockets that I keep other tools too.
I kept forgetting something similar like that. I decided to keep a small pad of paper by my machine and wrote a list, and because it was where I sat to sew, I saw it. As I used it, I marked it off my list. This is also how I remember where I stop on quilt patterns. I will either write it down or mark it on the pattern. I got tired of reading the pattern trying to figure out where I stopped. It took up too much of my sewing time.
Oh Pat that cross stitch is so stinking cute!! Humm..do I have time to do it for Halloween this year? I think not but next year for sure. Beautiful Peace and Quilt quilt!
My favorite color!
Getting caught up on your videos. I cut my binding and put in a baggie and pin to the quilt top. I put the top with the backing and just need to roll out the batting when I decide to quilt. I also got in the habit of marking the "top" of the quilt top and backing when my husband did the quilting. This process helped me keep everything together for each project.
Longarmer Tammie Ernest offers the service of stitching the binding on so when you get it back from her all to do is turn to the back and stitch it down! Nice eh. History of Sewing books are fascinating ❤. For a class in sewing silk I made mine into an 18th century pocket. I plan to wear it with modern outfits eg: 👖 so it can be seen.
NICE fat quarter bundles, love both the orange & purple. 🙂
Fresh M&Ms? Heaven!
I'm not a coffee fan but love the two cross stitch kits you showed! Very cute. I need to find some similar ones about chocolate.
That “book nook” book was wonderful. I make my binding and keep it in the project box or in a plastic bag with a label . I don’t usually have too many projects going at once so that helps me too! Love seeing tour video every day.
I love the segment about adjusting processes. You don’t need to have the perfect most efficient process in the world, you need a process that fits YOUR thinking. It is easier to change a process than to change your brain. :) I have a small closet in my sewing room with a hang bar and hangers. I drape the pressed backing,top, and cut/pieced borders on the flat of a hanger and loop the binding around the neck as each is ready. The binding stays on the hanger until the quilt comes back from the longarmer or until I have finished quilting. That way I can see at a glance which quilts have binding made and how many quilts are with the longarmer (I send in batches of 3-7). I might experiment with matching the number of hangers tot he number of project boxes to regulate how many projects I have in progress at a time…. 🤔
Good afternoon Pat. Finding my binding is a pinch point for me too. I started out making it early, after cutting the quilt pieces, but no matter how I stored it, it went walk about in my sewing room. Now, I keep my uncut binding fabric in the project bin with the unsandwiched quilt top and make it up after sandwiching, then it goes back into the project bin until I’m ready for it. Finding a process that works can be such a challenge. But once you do, life gets so much easier. Just a thought from the peanut gallery. 🤗
How fascinating to see another aspect of sewing history that really is special unto itself. The elaborateness is amazing.
When I make binding, I drop it in a dedicated half-drawer by my machine. No scraps, just ready bindings. Only a small space is needed. They're too lumpy, get creased, get lost, or fall in between things while traveling with the top or sandwich, and by travel I mean just within my home lol. Bagging, tagging, anything else requires time, materials & energy which I can redirect elsewhere. Your mileage may vary ;-)
I have a shoe box size plastic bin where I put all my cut binding in waiting for the quilt. I make my binding right away after finishing quilt top
What a delightful book.
I make my binding as soon as I finish the quilt top. I put it with the bin with the remnants of the fabrics of that project so I know what it belongs to and it stays there until the quilt comes back from the long armer. I try to sew the machine part of the binding within a week of getting it back from the LA, but the hand stitching will wait a while.
I have to laugh about M&m story. I keep my needles in the Minis M&m container. Lovely lid, Thank you for all you do and share
Eyes on your Liberty blocks, couldn’t stop looking they’re stunning. 👍❤️😊
My friends and I ran into that also. So now we always make binding, keep it in a bag with the top, once it's quilted it's still together as I quilt my own. Never lost. My other friend doesn't always do it that way and ends up making a new binding.
Use your project sheet or quilt journal to write down if you made the binding and where it's stored.
I cut and sew my bindings when quilt top is done, ready to go to longarmer. I keep them rolled up in a square crafting box and either pin a sticky on for what project it goes with or if large roll of binding, in a zippy bag. this way all bindings are in one place and ready to sew once project is back from longarmer. I have these bins for machine quilting supplies and paper piecing too, that way everything I need is in one spot.
Hey, all! I use FQS quilt journal and check off when i make the binding. Quick refference when it returns from long-armer.
I was listening to this video yesterday (Oct. 15) and the housewifs sounded a lot like this sew-along I heard about a few years ago. It was for a pocket you could sew up and tie to your waistband. I don't remember what the "official" name of them were. Thinking about the two and I realized that fanny packs must be the updated version of them because I often wear a fanny when I'm outside and need an extra something when I'm romping out in the woods or around the homestead and feel the need to have a secure pocket.
Such a cool book! I love the history of sewing and hand stitching. I don’t know how those women sewed by candlelight tho! I have a drawer right next to my machine that only my binding goes in!!
Thank you Pat.
Binding-- I always make binding and put with the quilt when it comes back from the spa. 😊
I'm intrigued by the history and beauty of the little pockets. I wonder what they will find about us in a few hundred years😊.
I've found that if I make bindings while making the top I'm more likely to get the binding on right after it is quilted. I try to keep it in a labeled plastic bag with the quilt top and backing. And ooooh those London quilt blocks peeking out behind you! I'm loving the challenge while savoring the childhood memories of living just outside London.
I love all the detail in that book!!
Thanks!
thank you so much!!
I so love those rolls especially the beautiful velvet my Nanna made a velvet crazy quilt wall hanging with her beautiful embroidery so would love to make one like she made some day, the book is amazing❤
Purple and green goes well together, I should try it in a quilt, I think there was one piece in that bundle with green.
I am so interested in the history of the sewing rolls. It goes along with my obsession for small antique purses:)
Good morning all
Love the history of sewing rolls. My mom had one for her knitting needles 😊. I’m a process person too and analysis is a good thing as it shows we are still growing and are flexible in our thinking. Cheers to you,Pat!🎉🎉🎉
I learned about something new today with the sewing items. I have never seen one.
Such a neat book about sewing history. I usually make the binding while sewing the quilt top then I attach it to the quilt top with a safely pin and it’s labeled just in case it gets separated from the quilt top. (Longarming it)
Love learning more about the history of sewing!
Ordered several pieces of the orange bundle you showed, also the cross stitch patterns :)
Hope you are well! I missed watching you over the weekend!
Pat I would love reading that book. I enjoy reading the history of fiber arts.
Boy o boy, you got my number!🤣. I prep the binding when the top is done. I wrap in a loose roll, secure in the middle with painter’s tape and write something on the tape to cue my memory. It’s taken me a while, but this works for me!
Thank you for sharing that history book. What fun sewing rolls. I use rolls for my colored pencils but not for my sewing tools. Some beautiful rolls. I also did not know about the huswif term. Thanks again.
I have dipped my toe back into the counted cross stitched world. I did it back in the 80’s and there are just so many cute patterns.❤❤. And thank you for asking them about those coffee charts! I love the!!
Same here. I am so tempted to start it back up.
My equivalent to the sewing roll: Ziplock bags and altoid tins
What did we do before ziploc was invented? I have all of the ziploc sizes for my kitchen and a duplicate set in my sewing room
Good morning from Schertz Texas
What if you put your premade bindings in a clear container? Really clear acrylic container, like the ones they sell for kitchen or bathroom supplies so that you can see it? Maybe put it in a more visible space? Maybe if it's not out of sight, it won't be out of mind?
i don't think that will help. It is not a visual issue, it's a process issue. I know that basket is there, I don't need it taking up my limited counter space for use once a month or so. the process will get changed and that will fix it for my brain
For your binding place a note/card that states what project it's for, then on your basket make a list of what bindings are in it. As you use the bindings cross them off the list.
I'm getting caught up on videos, but started watching from today & will go back. I just thought about having a dry erase board somewhere & when making the binding for a certain quilt, write it on there & where it's stored.
I really like caramel M&Ms.
The orange and purple fabrics are lovely. Ÿes to having a "process"! I almost used a fabric I had purchased for a quilt binding!
?? Please, on counted cross stich. I bought a counted cross stitch with the lovely print on it. The fabric is super stiff. Do I still use a "hoop" on it?
I cut my binding out when I cut out the Quilt. I know it’s hard to remember it. I put a note in the Quilt of a bright color. Just a reminder that I have it. We have way too much going on. I don’t know how you can keep up! 😳😱❤️
Isn't something like this in the rhyme? "Sally Locket had a pocket."
You have the right idea. But, pockets were separate pieces of clothing back then. They were considered underwear. They tied around the waist over the under petticoats. That’s how Lucy lost her pocket. It must have come untied.
I don't know! never heard of that one
@@PatSloan I work with historical garments. There is so much fun and unusual stuff out there from clothing history, it is impossible to know it all. 😃
Hi Pat..I'm by now means organized here on my side with binding but I was just wondering if you were a list keeper or something.lile that. Maybe you could have a spreadsheet that you would check before it goes to the quilter that would have your quilt listed and your binding listing along with the location listed of the binding???
There is Just ONE location for my binding, that basket. I don't keep it anywhere else. I just need to look there
I’m so frustrate!! I can’t find the download for the #4 National Park block, please help me!!
Confederate Civil war soldiers carried a huswif with them also.
That makes sense . If you only have one set of clothes, you’d have to repair them
The spelling is fun, middle English.
Stick with your guns! Just sayin'!
I love every one of your videos I try to see them on time but some I save till evening to see. Your the best I've learned a lot from you. Thank you so much for everything you do.