Originally Posted by Pam
As long as your binding is tight, filled with batting,
Right. As I understand it, this is an important point with quilt judging, which is kind of the standards we sort of try to go by mostly in our ordinary everyday fun of quilting, (although of course we can actually do anything we want - "It's our quilt!")
So here's what I do - When I have sewn on my front side of the binding, and am ready to go to the back and handstitch down the back half of the binding, I trim my quilt sandwich not on the line of the edge of my quilt top, but rather about 1/16" or even 1/8" out from the edge of the quilt top,
- making a tiny bit more batting and backing to cover with the binding as I sew along on the back.
I get great results with this extra bit of "filling" for my binding.