I respect and totally admire those who hand sew their bindings. I have never enjoyed it and prefer to machine sew my bindings. When making a child's quilt, I like to use a decorative stitch that is large and often use a coordinating thread. I do this because I want it to be very strong and can be thrown, pulled, tugged and generally abused without the worry of a binding coming loose. When I teach quilting, I do teach my students how to hand bind along with how I do it. I believe that everyone should figure out what they prefer and make their quilts as they want, without the worry of the 'quilt police' coming after them.