Thread: How many machine bind their quilts?

I have tried to machine bind the quilts for the same reason, lack of time, but I am never happy with the results, compared to the hand stiching. I have a friend that uses the backing for the binding, and she does a beautiful job. I have a problem catching the quilt top, so I found if I trim the side of the quilt even, instead of leaving a quarter of an inch of batting and backing, I get better results with maching sewing, but I still am not happy with the corners, so when I can, I try to hand sew. If I sit and sew and do nothing else, I can get a full size quilt hand binded in 8-10 hours.

I hand stitch the binding on all my big quilts, but machine sew on the small charity quilts--a SID or decorative selection--yesterday I shose to SID two of them. It is faster, but I LOVE the hand work when I have time. It is so much nicer looking.

I hav always done hand binding for all my quilts - bed quilts and wall quilts, until the last queen size quilt. I was already quite tired, so I machine bound it, and voila! It looks and feels good - neat and sturdy.
I guess from now on, I may machine bind my bed quilts, but still hand bind my wall quilts.

You need to do what works for you! I'm learning there are no rules, just have fun making them.

Here is a method very similar to what I do to the corners when bringing the backing around to the front of the quilt: (the last 2 minutes of video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUn8ffH-vh8

I always machine bind and often use a decorative stitch. Can't see well enough to hand stitch.

I figure if your whole quilt is machine stitched why not the binding? Especially for kids quilts.

I always machine bind. I wouldn't quilt if I couldn't use my machine for the entire project. I love pressing the pedal and making it hum.