that's fab, your center block is really lovely, choice Christmas colours :thumbup:
Re Binding: There is a way you can machine stitch binding. Sew your binding on by machine as normal, except you sew it to the back instead of the front, then fold binding over to the front and topstitch it down on the front on the machine, isn't as tidy on the back as hand sewn binding but is alot quicker. There was a post about this somewhere but I forget where it was. Hope that helps some.