Originally Posted by
mom-6
I guess I'm the odd one out. I stitch the binding to the back and bring it around to the front to stitch by machine. If doing the final step by hand then I stitch it to the front and hand stitch on the back. I do about half my quilts by machine and half by hand depending on which seems right at the time.
I usually machine stitch to the front and hand-sew to the back, but I want to do more machine binding, so I'll try this. I have done the envelope method (birthing) and then top-stitched next to the turned edge.