Easiest facing

After much consideration, I decided that the best finishing method for After the Storm would be a facing. I hate making facings almost as much as I hate hand-stitched bindings, mostly because they ARE hand-stitched bindings, only larger! But quite often the best finish is that faced edge so you have to bite the bullet and get it done.

Usually you cut pieces for each side and measure carefully and two sides are shorter than the others, everything is straight and even……………yeah, been there, done that. Easier, but using a big chunk of fabric, is the “cover the whole thing” method. I don’t recommend it for very large pieces!

Lay out a piece of fabric as large as your entire quilt. Spread your piece out face down on it and pin it down all the way around. I trim my quilt ahead of time and trim the facing piece after pinning.

 

Stitch together all the way around. I clip the corners and neaten up the edges. Then flip it over and carefully cut ONLY the facing fabric all the way around. Doesn’t need to be measured or straight or even!

Turn facing fabric to the back and spend some quality time with your iron, getting your edges turned to the back and pressed flat. And the last part is to turn under the raw edges of the facing and do that boring hand stitching!

Now I have found that sometimes the corners need a little extra shaping to keep that facing where you want it. This is kinda hard to see in the pic but I make a little dart if I need it.

And that’s all there is to it!

By the time you read this, I should have spent quality time with my butt planted on the couch, stitching away and watching TV. It will be another UFO finished! Couch potato time is not all bad!