Last week we explored the idea of starting a Binding Club. If you missed it, click here to learn more. This week we are sharing binding club activities ideas, challenges and educational event ideas that are perfect for a binding club or any other type of quilt group.
Binding Club Meeting Activities Ideas
Binding in the Wild
Pick a fun and unusual location to bind a quilt. Binding by hand lends itself to travel, so take a quilt on a Binding Club road trip!
Places to consider binding at…
- Park – be sure to pack a picnic!
- Coffee Shop
- Bowl and Bind…Go to a bowling alley for some fun. Everyone not up to bowl works on the binding.
- Library – for a group with children, head to the library. The kids can look for books while the adults bind quilts.
Trivia Night
Play trivia while binding. Each team gets a quilt to bind. The team with most points wins! Bonus points for finishing the quilt first.
Topic Night
Pick a topic for the night along with a list of questions. Come together to bind and discuss.
Sing Along
Get together and sing. Pick song everyone know or plan ahead and prepare a playlist. Everyone sings and binds the night away.
Binding Challenges
Spice things up with fun challenges. They can be personal or for the whole group.
Try…
- Each quilter take a side and race to the corner
- Binding Bingo – Create a list of different items to bind. List them on a Bingo card and give everyone attending a copy. Have participants work to get a Bingo. Have them bring their card to get a prize!
- Keep track of how many quilts each quilter binds for a year. At the end of the year award the binding queen!
Educational Events
Offer great quilting resources on making and attaching binding to your quilts.
Learn how to…
- Make bias binding tubes
- Add piping to binding
- Bind a scalloped edge
- Create different effects with striped fabric
- Add a flange to binding
- Make pieced binding
- Add embellishment to binding
- Create different effects with striped fabric
- Add pom poms along the ends of the binding
- Bind a quilt with Prairie Points
- Add tassels to binding
- Attach the binding ends together
- Add bead work to binding
- Stuffing binding
Have each person pick a month to present an educational workshop. It’s a fun way for everyone to learn.
What would you do at your Binding Club? Leave your ideas in the comments below.
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