I remembered seeing this on some form of social media, went hunting and found it! I used long sharp heat resistant pins and added a third pin to guide the fabric before it hit the iron. It worked amazingly well, the neatest binding I have ever made with no burnt fingers. My ironing board coped well - I have one of those metallic ironing board covers - and using steam I think prevented any scorching of the fabric. I did do it one section at a time.
I believe I've got this continuous binding technique mastered. A couple of reminders:
- Trim your quilt corners before sewing on the binding because it is hard to trim away batting excess if you have used the 'sew on an angle to the edge' technique when doing the corners. This is possibly a reason not to do this but to just stop and secure your stitching - I'll try that next time.
- Leave a nice big 'gap' to manoeuvre your binding when you mitre the ends.
- Both ends of the binding need to overlap by the width of the binding, then cut.
- Never trim the mitre before checking you have done it correctly.
- Iron the binding well, from the front away from the quilt then from the back folded over exactly to just cover the sewing line.
- Sew the four sides leaving a gap at the corners. Come back and do the corners, remembering that the direction of the tuck is opposite on both sides of the mitre - this is how you get it to sit flat.
