Originally Posted by
junegerbracht
As an alternative you could pillowcase the runners. If you edge stitch carefully they come out well. I often do this when making runners for church fair - can’t invest too much time since people are not willing to pay for time invested and few know the difference between bound or simply turned. Just an idea.
This is exactly what I was thinking, birth the runner, then quilt it. No need to futz around trying to get the binding just right. And because this is a small runner it should work out much easier than trying to do the two color binding.