Originally Posted by
quilttiger
1) Basting with glue is a great help! Wish I had heard of this sooner, smile.
2) The only time I iron the the binding is when I fold the strip wrong sides together and iron it flat before attaching to the quilt.
There are no hard and fast rules there...whatever works, works.
The reason some don't iron a crease in the binding is because the outer layer has to go further than the inner layer - and because of that, the center fold is off by a few threads. I do pin the edges together so that they stay together while I sew the binding on.