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I have aida fabric and use a white thread to do a angled stitch over two holes. It looks like two sides of a triangle.

What stitch do you use to cut down on unraveling?

Ummm, I just use masking tape.

I use my sewing machine to do a zigzag along the sides of my fabric. Takes less than 2 minutes to do the whole thing!

I use Fray Check - its a type of soluble glue that you apply to the edge of the fabric and let it dry and it stops the fabric from fraying while you work on it. I find it washes off when I wash my project (I have found anyway)

Aida I usually use fray check, evenweave I use my sewing machine and zig zag the edges.

Depends on the size of the project (and, therefore on the length of time it's likely to be hanging around). A big - lengthy - project I'll use an edging stitch on my sewing machine, a small one will be done with masking tape. When I began stitching I would hand bind the edges but found this too lengthy a process.

I am also one that uses the sewing machine to zigzag the edges.

I'm another one that uses Fray Check. It's simple, quick and easy.

I'm also one that uses masking tape to bind edges.
Quick and easy, I keep a roll on the table next to my stitch chair.
If I had a sewing machine, I would use that.

Most often, I don't do anything because my fabric is tucked up under my Q Snap cover so it stays protected and doesn't unravel.

I have an overlocker and use that.

I use Fray Check, though the last few pieces of fabric I've bought have been from my LNS and they sew up the edges for me which is fantastic.

Fabric I buy at my LNS is stitched by the owner and that is lovely. Fabrics not stitched I do what Maggie does: use masking tape or fold the fabric under my Q-Snap cover and don't worry about the edges. On afghans I just let the edges turn into fringe.

Carole

I use nothing and never had any fraying

I use my surger.

Well I'm not a hoe but I use material medical tape (it's easier on the fabric than masking tape but does just as good a job).

I glue mine with craft glue. Some of my projects have been on the go for 4 or 5 years and the glue has held up well to the test of time. I usually have well over 3 inches of spare fabric around the edge of my stitching so when they're finished, I can simply cut off the crispy glued edge OH finds it amusing when I get a new piece of fabric and have it clothes-pegged to a curtain rail, dangling down with three sides glued

Masking tape for me. I always cut off the sticky bit anyway, and it holds up pretty well.

If I owned a sewing machine that was available (and knew how to use it!), I'd probably sew the edges. But I don't, so masking tape it is.

For small pieces I normally hand-sew a whip stitch around the edge, for larger pieces I use the sewing machine zig-zag stitch.

I use masking tape. I've considered using Fray Check but wasn't sure how good it was.

I usually use an evenweave like Jobelan or a linen. I don't sew the edges. If I buy the fabric for a project from my LNS, they serge it; but if I use my own fabric, I don't do anything to the edges. I use scroll rods so the edges of my fabric don't get 'handled' so there is very little, if any, fraying.

I have a serger (overlock machine) and I serge the edges of my girlfriend's fabric for her. She uses Q-Snaps so her fabric gets handled a lot more and she had a lot of fraying before I started prepping her fabric for her.

I haven't used Fray Check on my needlework fabric, but I've used it when sewing. It's quite sturdy stuff. . . .almost like a glue that 'seals' the raw edge of the fabric.