Originally Posted by momymom
Also, the binding usually wears out first. Would you want to have to take out 2 rows of machine stitching to replace a binding? I also think hand stitched binding looks so much better. I tryed to machine stitch the back side of a binding. It was terrible. I ripped it out and hand stitched it. I've done it that way ever since.
I machine stitch the (doubled) binding to the back first, then turn and machine stitch the front; this way I have control over what it looks like on the top. If it had to wait for me to do it by hand it wouldn't happen!!!