It works! I was asked to finish a quilt that had been started by a woman who had passed away. It meant a lot to her daughter that it was finished the way it had been planned. Only problem was, I was short on fabric for the binding. I cut 1 1/2" muslin strips and pieced them to be the length I needed. I then cut 1 3/4" strips of the fabric that I wanted as the binding and pieced them to the needed length. I then sewed the two strips together and then ironed the resulting strip in half. I made sure to sew the strip with the raw edge to the edge of the quilt, binding material side down to the quilt top. You then proceed using your regular binding technique.