Okay, you have cut and pressed your loooong binding for a large quilt. You stick a pin into the pool noodle and end of the binding and wind it all on. I stick a pin at the other end of the binding into the noodle as I get ready to put in the shoelace. Put the shoelace or string through the hole in the noodle and tie a knot(forming a loop to go around your neck). Sit down at your machine with your quilt and the noodle string around your neck (noodle about chest height) remove the pin from the top end of the binding and pull it towards the quilt edge. The binding unwinds from the noodle as you sew it to the quilt edge. Sometimes you have to give it a little tug but it beats pulling the binding from under the quilt or from under my rolling chair casters and it also doesn't get all twisted.