Originally Posted by
SillySusan
Hi, I just don't have any energy left! I finished the hand binding on 6 out of the 10 of the baby quilts I had planned to do for this VQW. The last 4 will just have to wait until next time, but, of course, the 4 will have multiplied in the dark and I'll have an additional dozen or two waiting for me. Alas, alas and woe me! Think I'll eat some worms!
Susan, why not try machine binding? I stitch mine to the front, then flip them over to the back and go around pinning in the ditch from the front, checking every few pins to make sure I caught enough binding on the back. Then I sew around from the front, removing 2-3 pins at a time and stitching tight in the ditch, not beside it. Then I check the back, and if I missed anything I just fix that area. But usually I catch it all if I pinned well. The entire process takes about half an hour.
I just finished the binding on my 10yo UFO, now a FO (finished object!). Yay. It's a different sort of quilt, because the filler blocks are in the center, and the interest is all around the borders, the opposite of most quilts. Here it is:
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