I machine bind on the front and hand stitch the binding on the back. I can sit with the DH in the evenings and complete each quilt this way. I enjoy the hand stitching on the binding and hand quilt some part of each and every quilt. I am getting better at it - not really small stitches yet but they are uniform - usually about 7 to an inch. However, I have only been quilting for about 2 years after retiring from teaching. On this one, I hand quilted around all the details in each block and machine quilted around the borders. I just finished it - took me 2 months from start to hand sewing the binding on the back.
Last edited by QuiltingHaven; 03-29-2013 at 03:31 AM.