Okay, here is my awful quilting secret. I too hate binding- but for a huge different reason- my oldest son (who is now 29) almost choked himself to death when he was 2 years old on a blanket binding. He was playing superman and dived off his bunkbed and had the blanket binding that he had pulled off a blanket around his neck. By total divine intervention, I was walking down the hall when it happened. To this day, I have not put another binding on a quilt. And the quilt police have not arrested me yet. So I say that if it's giving you fits, don't do it. Just my two cents :) :) :) :) :)