Thank you for your replies... I very carefully, with my walking foot, sewed near the edges all around the runner... and it looks OK so far... my next step is to put the binding on... thanks for the info regarding the batting... maybe next time I will use a thinner one... there have been several photos of table runners on this site and I was sort of hoping that these people would tell me just what they did with the edges... before putting the binding on or whether they did nothing with the edges... I had been thinking of hand sewing a running thread around but didn't.