Originally Posted by Donna - Batiks
If you bobbin threads washes away what is left to hold the binding on from the back? You would have to stitch with the machine from the front to "hold" the back of the binding on the quilt. If you hand sew the front - the back would eventually come apart...or am I missing something?
it doesn't wash completely away - it just isn't stiff like the typical fusible web that we're all familiar with - my mistake for not being completely clear on that.
then when you sew the binding again you no longer have fusible thread on the machine - you use whatever thread you like in both the top and the bobbin.