Originally Posted by pieces
Maybe its a personal preference topic. (?)
I machine stitch my binding on the front, turn and hand stitch to the back. On the Downy quilts they request the binding to be stitched well because of the repeated washings. So after hand stitching on the back I top stitch on the front binding. Since I hand stitched first I am sure to catch the back and get a nice
finished binding.
Very good idea! I had not thought about machine stitching on the front after hand stitching on the back. I always machine stitch the front then hand stitched the back since I never could catch the back when I tried to machine stitch from the front and called it finished - love your idea of hand stitching the back then machine stitching the front.