Originally Posted by
Kitsie
Many of us (and more every day) machine bind with very good results. I didn't learn from a tutorial, but I'm sure there are many. One thing that really helped my binding was to only pin a bit at a time of the binding to the quilt when first sewing it on. It sews on nice and flat and you don't have to "scrunch" or pull it to fit. Sew it to the back first, fold it over and use a decorative stitch on the front:[ATTACH=CONFIG]295281[/ATTACH]
That's exactly how I do mine and it makes it so much faster. I, too, have arthritis in my hands and can no longer do hand sewing for any length of time. I think doing the binding this way will last longer, as well. After all, my quilts have to last 100 years!!