Finished Halloween Quilt Binding

My 2014 Halloween Quilt binding is completed.  OK, I'm 2 days late but I'm so happy it's done.  Time to celebrate a finished quilt!    I decided to try and complete the binding by machine.  I used the Clover Wonder Clips on the quilt to wrap the binding to the back and hold until I would sew it.  I would give the clips a B+ on a review.  Here's some pro's and con's that I think of them.

CONS

• It takes a lot of them to hold the binding.  I placed one about ever 2" So you'll probably need to buy multiple sets.
• If you open them with too much force, the spring mechanism breaks or stretches so they don't hold anymore. 
• It's hard to move the quilt around with all those clips on it.  They get caught on things.
• I still had to go back and resew a couple areas where the binding wasn't caught on the back.  Good thing was that this was black binding on back backing.. you can't see the resew areas.
• Taking them off is a little slower than other type clips I've used.

PROS

• Amazon has them on sale for about $11 for 50 clips.
• They hold the binding a lot better in place than trying to sew on binding without them.
• Hey, 90% accuracy is great in my book when it comes to binding.
• Sewing went slow but it was a heck of a lot faster than hand sewing the binding to the back.
• It only took me maybe 20-25 minutes to finish a 60 x 80 quilt.
• I'll definitely use them again when I want to machine sew a binding on.

Here's the spacing I used on the clips

and here's the finished binding.

Now on to quilting the Christmas Present Quilt with a Christmas Present Panto I created.


Thanks for stopping by!  
~*~Trish~*~