I am with Bonnie I send the binding 2 inch with the quilt and she sews it on. She has a heavy industrial sewing machine and does a beaut job all I do is hand sew it down. I try to match the thread to the binding color and do a hidden stitch also I started with 2 and half inch binding and doubled it thinking it would do better but a quilter friend told me the outside layer of binding is the first to wear out whether it is double or single and you might want to rebind anyway so now I just do a single fold binding I enjoy the relaxing with the quilt on a cold evening while I hem.