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Old 12-13-2011, 05:56 PM
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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]
Why wouldn't you sew it on to the front and then decorative stitch it to the back? I think it looks nicer that way.
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