One more thing I should mention about binding. It is usually not necessary to pre-wash binding fabric, especially if you are doing straight-grain binding. If you are doing bias binding, though, you may want to pre-wash for shrinkage. On one quilt I decided to do bias binding using an unwashed Michael Miller black fabric. The binding went on beautifully but, after the quilt was washed, the binding fabric shrank a lot, creating ripples and waves along all of the edges. Bearisgray has mentioned how much MM black fabric shrank when she pre-washed it. So I think this caution has to do both with the fact that this is a fabric that has a lot of shrinkage, plus the bias cut probably makes the shrinkage even worse. None of my other bindings have shrunk like that even though they were not pre-washed; however, none were MM black and all were straight-grain bindings.