Sometime this month I am expecting the arrival of grandbaby #4! During the Thanksgiving holiday weekend we had a baby shower for my daughter – lots of clothes & story books, but not a single receiving blanket! So while I’ve been finishing up her wedding quilt and starting the baby’s quilt — I’ve made some over-sized receiving blankets out of cotton jersey knit. Joann’s had some adorable prints – 58″ wide. I bought 1-1/4 yds of four different prints – ample.
First decide your size – I chose 42-inch square for my size. I then folded it fourths to round the corners. Use a can or lid as a pattern.
Use a can or lid to make a square corner round.
Next cut your strips for the binding – cotton jersey knit has more stretch crosswise – cut length wise instead for a more stable edge. 1-3/4 inch width worked out nicely. 
Time to join the pieces – on the bias spreads out the bulk.
Binding pieces joined on the bias.
Next you’re going to sew the binding and blanket square together – wrong side of blanket to right side of binding. Start with a tail about 6-8 inches long. Round corners can be a bit tricky but look great when your finished – you’ll need to stretch the blanket a bit at the corner while not stretching the binding.
Stretch the blanket corner while attaching the binding. Once you get around the corner - STOP stretching.
Joining the binding when you come back around is a breeze! Really! You can get a little measuring square to help you out
Binding tool - not necessary.
but I’m going to tell you how without the tool! Stop stitching about 6-8 inches before you get to the start – hopefully you have two tails that overlap.
Leave a space for joining the ends.
Take ONE tail and cut it straight across about mid way in the space left. Now take a ruler and put it flush with the cut end, overlap the uncut tail over that and then make a cut at the same measurement as the width of your binding – in my case 1-3/4 inches from the end of the ruler.
Using a ruler to connect your binding ends.
Now to connect the two ends
Square up the ends at a right angle and sew across the bias.
Trim off the excess, press open and it should lay nice and flat for you to finish attaching to the blanket.
Nice fit - ready to finish up.
Pressing the edges - watch your fingers! ouch!
Time to press – press the seam toward the binding and on the raw edge of the binding fold & press a 1/4 inch allowance.
Using a stitch in the ditch foot & needle moved a few notches to the right.
Time to sew again! I have found using my stitch in the ditch foot, adjusting the needle location over 3 or 4 notches to the right, gets me set up for a very nice top-stitched edge.
A bit blurry - you'll need to stretch it a bit to keep the binding square to itself.
Once again on the corners you’ll need to do a bit of stretch of the blanket – try to keep the binding square to the binding so you’ll need to stretch the blanket enough to do that.
Done! Note one on the right I did with the binding cut on the crosswise – you can see a bit of wave to the blanket edges versus the one on the left lying nice and flat.
Suggestions for next month’s topic? I’m thinking about focusing on applique – #4 grandbaby’s quilt has 16 squares of applique that I’ll be focused on for the next couple of weeks!
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Helen, I love you but seriously go nuts when you write “your” when it should be the contraction “you’re” as in when you said ” Next you’re going to…”
Interesting how the proofreader questions the spelling of “sew” but not “your”. Corrected.
Thanks for the information! Would like another on Applique!
Thank you so much! My daughter had a jersey knit blanket that she loved to pieces so i figured i would just buy some fabric and make a new one, but I couldn’t figure out the binding. This was perfect! Can’t wait to get started!