As an educator of 34 years, I can truly appreciate quality teaching when I see it. Your videos are great examples of someone who understands that showing someone something is NOT the same as teaching! Thank you for the patience you show in all of your videos as you teach us new tricks!! Keep up the good work.
I watched this video before buying this foot, I am presently finishing my second project using this foot and wish to say thank you very much for your kindness for such a good teaching video!
Thank you so much. I googled Bernina binding foot and I found you. I was feeling lucky that I have a 71 foot. I love all of your instructions. Your camera angle is perfect, and your instructions are very clear. I can’t wait to try this! Genius! Thanks for generously sharing!
"Hold the presser foot down after turning the corner" - brilliant advice. I abandoned this method because I couldn't feed the fabric correctly after a miter. Thanks so very much Shelley.
Wow! I’m impressed. I loved the ease and perfection achieved with the foot. I also appreciated the tip on how she joins her binding by using a binding scrap to measure the join.
I just want to say thank you for such a superbly shot instructional video!!! I have made five quilts and you have shown me the light with this foot#71!!!
I took a class at my LQS on this method quite some time ago. This video was the perfect refresher since it’s been awhile since I’ve had a quilt to bind. This is my favorite method-love the results! Thank you!
Thank you for taking the time to describe this process so thoroughly, Very nice presentation and I will be trying it soon. It's the first time I've seen an attempt at sewing quilt binding by machine with great results.
Your video tutorial is the best one I have seen for this technique with the #71 foot. And your tip about the bobbin color is brilliant. Thank you so much for such a wonderful tutorial.
Thank you so much for your excellent how-to videos. They're so well done and easy to follow. I just bought the 71 foot and am ready to give this a try! Thanks again. :)
Hi Shelly, Fantastic video, excellent step by step instructions. Just recently got my Bernina machine, great machine and fabulous results following your video. Thanks!
Great tutorial. I tried this method once and got into a lot of trouble but you have clearly described what I did wrong. I will have another try soon. Loved your tips about cutting a piece of binding to use as a cutting guide for the end of the binding and holding the presser down. Thank you for sharing.
I just got the 71 foot and have tried this method. So far so good. Need some practice but I think I will like this method. Thanks for a great video!! Aug 2023
I officially love you. My hands swell and it’s very painful to hand sew quilt bindings. I’ve been trying to find a way to perfect machine bindings for many of my quilts and I’m struggling. I have a new Bernina 570qe and this is the answer to my problem! This foot is brilliant, but more important, this is one of the best video tutorials I’ve seen on just about any topic. You are amazingly thorough, detailed, and your camera work is well done. From the bottom of my heart THANK YOU!
I was a bit reluctant to buy this foot but once I found your video, it all went smoothly! Thanks for guiding me though what will now be the only way I attach my binding! Sure beats the back breaking method of doing it by hand!
Jennifer, I am so glad this is going to be of help to you. Check out the additional 71 tip and tips video that I uploaded today 2-18-18. Best to you. Shelly
Watched this video twice, went to Bernita dealer & bought the 71 foot for my Artista 170. I made all my mistakes (corner) on a practice piece and now keen on using this 71 foot for all my binding. It’s clean, precise and puts all the binding stitching IN the binding. Great video, Shelley.
You are a God send!! I always have something that I don’t like on All my bindings. Either I swerve a little close to the edge or off the edge. Or the binding thickness is off in a couple of places!! Well your video was so detailed and very well explained. Thank you. I’ve had the #71 foot but never used it. Now I will. Thank you again. Can’t wait to see your other videos!! God Bless and stay safe. 🧵🪡✂️🧵🪡
I purchased the #71 foot a while ago and came across your video. Thank you for such a great tutorial because now I have the confidence I needed to complete a Quilt of Valor and charity quilts... FAST! I will be watching more of your best tricks of the Bernina quality I've come to love.
Thank you for the video and excellent teaching. This has been a revelation! I started with scraps, then placemats, table runner and just finished a queen-sized quilt. What a great timesaver for those of us who don’t care to hand sew binding. It does take a bit of practice but gives great results.
Thanks for your nice comment Susan. The BERNINA #71 foot is made for creating flat felled seams that are 4mm wide. I'm fairly positive you can find a flat felled seam foot to work with any machine. Just adjust the width of the binding fabric if it is a different size.
Dear Shelly, I realy love your video. It saved me a lot of money I couldn't afford to buy the binding foot #88 or #87... today I finished one quilt with your technique and made a totaly mess, but the quilt itself is a little messy too and I think about this quilt as my practicequilt (my old machine messed up the quilting and my new 570qe made a wonderful job repairing it). I realy need to practice your method and will have to rewatch the video several timers for the hints I missed, because I'm no native speaker. But it's so much fun to listen to your wise words and watching you sew smooth and easy. It gives me hope, that one day, my binding looks perfekt as yours. Thanks for taking the time and teaching us. Thank you very much ♡
Thanks for your kind words. I have posted a couple of other videos regarding the 71 foot binding technique that may be helpful also. Check them out too.
Shelly, Vey impressive technique on joining bindings. I will do all mine the same from now on. I've developed a way of joining on my own but I will switch to yours now. Also, the 71 foot is just great for joining binding. Thanks for showing it even if it was quite a while ago...I will watch out for more from you. Gloria Y
Make sure you don't have any fabric under the right to of the foot. If the fabric is not in the right position you will not have enough fabric to go to the back. While this is not a difficult technique it is a very exact technique. I hope you keep trying.
Thankyou also ... it is one of the Best videos Ever, wonderful camera work ,,,,,!!!!!!!! I have a Bernina 530 , will look for that foot. And! To see the binding finished , 🥳😊😊😊
Thank you thank you thank you!!! Why did I ever buy or mess with that 88 bernina binder attachment? I've watched and used this awesome tutorial many times you shared, but I still try the binding attachment. My binding is finally on after watching this tutorial again and using the 77 foot just as you show!! It's not as pretty and straight as yours, but it's definitely acceptable... and my mitered corners were easy and look great!!! Thank you Sew Shelly Quilts!!!
Thank you for sharing your binding technique using the #71 foot. The filming you did was perfect - crystal clear with an excellent view of the stitching area! One suggestion that you might consider trying is to first sew the binding on the back side of the quilt instead of the front. That way your final stitching is done with the quilt top facing you, and those pretty hand-turned mitered corners are visible on the front of the quilt. Also, I'd use thread that best blends with the binding in both the top thread and bobbin. Just a thought...
Gayle, I sew to the top first because the original stitching can peak out sometimes and I would not want that on the front. Also that is why the bobbin thread matches the backing the first time. If any of the stitching does peak out it is not not obvious. Glad you enjoyed the video.
When I join the ends of the binding, I form a big pleat in the quilt between the two ends and hold it with a big office binder clip. It brings the ends together with slack so sewing the diagonal join is way easier.
The Free Hand System is a metal bar attached to the front of the machine and exteding down to below the edge of the table that you can use with your knee to lift and lower the presser foot. Sometimes it is referred to as a *knee lift*.
You refer to always going back to the regular foot from the #71 foot midway through the video. Please clarify the regular foot. I am a newbie and want to try this with placemat binding. I have a 475QE and a 790 Plus. Thanks for the clear instruction and your patient tone of voice. Both crucial qualities to good teaching methods!
A regular foot would be the number 1 or 1D. I usually use 34 or 34D which is a clear plastic version of the 1 or 1D. I like being able to see through the foot. Use a 1 or 34 on your 470 and a 1D or 34D on your 790 with the dual feed engaged.
Hi, Shelly, I just subbed when I found this vid and saw what a good teacher you are! This was a well-done tutorial and you really are experienced, which is probably why you can make things so clear and simple. I'm probably going to binge on your videos for the sheer enjoyment and anticipation of being able to sew again! (Health kept me from doing much for a decade so I am hungry to "get behind the wheel" again!) It's been my dream for years to have a Bernina and now can get one. Do you mind if I ask which model you like best and recommend these days? I haven't gone shopping yet except visually on RU-vid and it gets confusing! I guess I should say what kind of sewing I want to do. I want to make quilts, sew clothes and bags, and do free motion machine embroidery "painting" of my own drawings. I appreciate your advice and thoughts! Hugs and blessings!♡ Sue
I love this so much, Shelly. Can't wait to try it. Also, where and how do you have your camera mounted? I teach freemotion and would love to film this way. Thanks sooo much.
Love your videos !!!! I have an old Bernina 1630. While watching this video I wondered what foot you used to finish edge of quilt before you put binding on?
Hi Shelly, great video! I know you've said many times cut a 2" binding. Does that mean 2" after it's folded or cut a 2" strip and fold it and it will be 1"? It just looks so wide on the video, wider that 1" (folded).
Do you always use a 2 inch binding? I don't seem to have enough at the mitered corners. Should the stitch be in the ditch on the reverse side? I like sewing the binding on with the 71 foot. do you trip the batting away afterwards?
Noticed that if I put a D foot on my Bernina 830, I can push needle over all day and it will dutifully click and the needle twitches but the needle actually does not move. The machine overrides the needle over action when it knows it will hit the foot. Good to for me to know BECAUSE I often switch between regular feet and D feet and not correcting the needle position for a switch to a regular foot would, well, come back and bite. Thanks for the tutorial on binding with foot #71.
I purchased this foot and I'm a believer! It looks like you prep the raw edge with a zig zag or overcast stitch before attaching binding? Is this correct and if so what stitch did you use?
