I was watching a show years ago, believe it was "Simply Quilts" where someone demonstrated using a safety pin doing the same thing. You attach the safety pin by pinning it on to your ironing board and then pulling the fabric through it. she also left the iron flat down and pulled the fabric under the iron at the same time. I believe she had a special cloth so not to burn the ironing board cover. But she did do a very long strip of binding at a time. Haven't really tried it since I don't have any problem making the binding, just thought it was interesting.