Binding; machine or hand?
#101
Originally Posted by mic-pa
I used to always sew the binding by hand to the back, but arthritis has "hit" so now I sew the binding by machine to the back and bring it around to the front and machine sew it with a decorative stitch/
#104
I do both. On baby quilts I totally machine sew, as long as the fabric I use on the back is the one I don't mind binding with! On any other quilt I sew the binding to the front and hand sew to the back. That is my preference since I can never get that perfectly aligned machine stitch!!! I do a blind stitch.
#106
Originally Posted by Quilting Angel
I'm sure this will sound crazy, but I don't even know how to hand sew...lol. I just started quilting almost a year ago, and I am completely self taught. Although, I have got great advice here on this board. I machine sew my binding down to the back of my quilts and then I machine sew the binding to the front with a decorative stitch. I really like it that way. I think it looks so neat. In the beginning, I was sewing it down on the front and then on the back, but you could always see that stitching on the front which looked messy to me, so that's why I started doing the decorative stitch.
#107
Machine stitch to front - hand stitch to back, until I found the tut with the "flange" method that looks really nice both front and back, and gives a nice extra detail. Not somthing I'd use all the time, but gives the quilt extra zip, and easy too!
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