I have been doing this for years and have never had a problem. If you go slow and don't let a lot of glue come out at once there is no mess. This is the only way I do binding & piecing where the pieces are stubborn or need to be extremely exact. It started at a quilt retreat when I was making a memory quilt for my daughter out of her boys outgrown clothing. There were many different kinds of fabrics & weights and I included pieces of bibs and receiving blankets and had a hard time keeping the seams together with pins so I tried the glue and other members of the retreat thought at first I was out of my mind but when they saw how much easier it was they started calling me the glue lady. I also used the school glue stick for some of the pieces. Both worked great but the regular glue was easier to apply especially on knits and flannels.