How to bind the edges of your finished tapestry.

Congratulations if you have completed your tapestry!

Binding is a lovely way to finish your work. It's not difficult, but you have to be careful.

Trim your canvas to 7 threads all around the edge.

Then carefully fold the canvas across the corner, at two threads, matching the holes exactly.

Fold along the edge a little way on each side of the corner.

Fold into a neat point.

Next choose the position for the binding stitching. In the example, the binding is designed in colour blocks. In this case, there is a pattern to follow.

Many of the tapestries are bound using a single colour.

Go along one way and then back.

When binding in a single colour, sew all the way around the canvas, mitring the corners as you sew. Then sew back to the beginning.

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