Originally Posted by
icul8rg8r
No need to "confess" anything! Whether one binds by hand or by machine, it is totally up to the quilter! I actually prefer machine binding - seems much stronger. I bind from the back to the front, and use one of my machine's pretty decorative stitches which gives the quilt a nice, finishing touch.
This is also how I do it, no body has ever returned a quilt. I have arthritis & carpal tunnel (actually that is doing great after surgery) so I try to avoid anything that causes hand pain & more damage to these old hands. One quilt police woman commented once that I should only hand sew the bindings but I wonder if she'll be saying that in 30 years when she becomes my age.