What's difficult with having the extra 1/4" of non-quilt is that it's hard for me to tell if I'm sewing 1/4" onto the quilt top. That's part of why I like what y'all said about cutting things right to the quilt top since then (in theory) it should be substantially easier to get to 1/4" onto the quilt top... No reason in making binding more complicated then it needs to be :mrgreen: