Originally Posted by StitchinJoy

I loathe and detest binding. So I trade longarm quilting with the woman who binds for me.

We trade by monetary value-- I figure what it would cost to quilt her quilts, and she figures what she would charge to bind mine, and we have a running total.

Depending on how fancy and dense she wants the quilting, it usually works out to about 4 quilts bound for every 1 quilted.

We are both really happy with this arrangement. She gets her quilts quilted; I get my quilts bound. WIN-WIN!!!