An Instructable for people who already know how to put a binding on a quilt, but want to mix it up a bit. Sometimes your quilt needs one color binding on the front and another on the back - this will take care of it for you! Shouldn't cost any more than a regular binding.

Step 1: Cutting Your Strips

Cut your binding strips as follows:

1" strip for the quilt top
2" strip for the quilt back

Join strips until they are long enough for all four sides of your quilt leaving an extra 12" for joining at the end.

Step 2: Sewing the Strips Together

Sew the 1" and 2" strips right sides together using a 1/4" seam allowance.

Step 3: Pressing

Press the seam allowance open.

Step 4: Make the Binding

With wrong sides together make your binding by pressing the strip matching raw edges.

Step 5: Sewing the Binding On

Sew the pressed binding to your quilt top using 1/4" seam allowance and placing the narrow strip against the quilt top. Miter the corners as you would normally do.

Step 6: Finish It Up

Bring the binding around to the back and hand sew down. The seam of the binding should lay right on the edge of the binding. I sometimes press the binding to get a crisp edge before sewing.