With these Downey quilts.... I machine stitch my binding on the front and flip over to the back press it down with the iron, flip it back over to the front and use a large Zig Zag stitch over the binding by setting my walking foot with the needle in the center of the ditch. This ensures that the binding will hold up wash after wash and the zig zag stitch catches both the front and back of the binding. I also make my own binding because I do not like flipping part of the backing fabric over to the front, this seams very strange for me.