Binding with Elmer’s School Glue
May 15th, 2008
I came across these three video tutorials created by Sharon Schamber where she shows using Elmer’s School Glue for attaching binding to a quilt. It sure looks easy when she does it. Yesterday afternoon, I picked up some of the glue, we’ll see how well this works out.
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Part 3:
Thank you for these, they are great!!!
I had discovered this technique a few months back. It works great. As a beginner quilter, it makes more sense than the way I learned. I always had problems attaching the end pieces. No more!
-Alice
I just put on my binding with elmers school glue and Sharon’s instructions. What a pleasure to not deal with pins. It worked beautifully.
I played the video, paused it, went to my machine did the step, went back to the video, etc. It was like I was taking a class. Wonderful!
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I am looking forward to trying this on my next quilt. this is the best thing I have learned in a while.
I would like to purchase some tips for elmers glue, I don’t see where to purchase?
I did a practice piece and now I am ready to bind my Butterflies quilt. This was awesome. Much easier to execute than the way I was taught. Thank you!
I made two mistakes to beware of:
1st: the seam allowance is crucial!!! Mine was a tad too large and I couldn’t fully cover the seam on the backside of my test piece.
2nd: I didn’t leave enough space to fit the binding ends together as nicely as Sharon shows on the video. Err on the side of too much space.
Hi Kaye, great tips.
I love Sharon’s method, and am still using it exclusively a year since I found those videos. I’ve gotten pretty good at measuring the amount of tails to leave.
For me (since I’m right handed), I leave a generous amount at the start. When I come around to the final side, I often just glue it down, but don’t stitch it yet. It’s enough stability to keep it in place while I join the ends and if I need more flexibility, I can easy lift up the edge without having to pick out the stitching.
I, too, found this video series on the internet and was VERY excited to try it… I had a heck of a time finding the metal tips for the glue, but finally did and couldn’t wait to try it out… It worked PERFECTLY! I’m very excited about the technique and posted a note referring to this technique and how well it worked on a quilting blog, but the person there refuses to use this technique because she is afraid of the glue attracting bugs… Similar to why we use sizing instead of starch… which kind of rained on my parade a little bit… Does anybody anywhere know if this is a reasonable concern? I sure hope it’s not anything to worry about… I know the glue washed out when you wash the quilt, but the first time I used it was on a signature quilt for my parents 50th Anniversary, and I don’t want to wash that quilt….
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Kathryn, I just discovered the video on the Elmer’s Glue binding technique. I, too, am having a difficult time locating the metal tips for the glue. Can you tell me where to look?
Thanks.
Hi Patty,
Sorry, but I’m not sure where one can get the tips from. Sharon used to sell them in her store, but I don’t see them listed anymore.
You might be able to find something here:
http://www.thefind.com/search?query=precision+glue
Cheers,
Michele
I’m also concerned about putting all that glue and starch into a quilt – but for a competition quilt, that’s not going to bother me one bit – I’ll just wash it before I ‘retire’ it!
If I were doing this on gift quilts, I think I might do a little soak in plain water along the binding to help get rid of some of the glue & starch before giving it away (after it’s dry, of course).
I’ve seen those pointy things at JOANNS,
and this is in the scrapbooking dept online :
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So far, I’ve always washed all of my quilts before giving them away, so I haven’t had to worry about it. I’ll admit, I don’t always glue when stitching to the front, but do when flipping the binding to the backside.
I actually no nothing about quilts. It’s just that my sister needs some help and gladly I’ve found this video. Thanks, this could be of great help.
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I must say I love these videos. To use the elmers glue is amazing! To bind without pins is even more amazing!!!
Thank you for sharing…