Mumto2

I am not 100% percent certain I know exactly what French binding is but I do hand bind my quilts that are completely hand stitched. Using a machine to bind my EPP seems wrong and I normally need to fiddle things a bit. I just don’t trust the walking foot that much.......

I cut my binding strips to the width I need, sew together on a diagonal, and press in half. Then I match my edges on the front and carefully line things up and stitch through all layers, all around, using corner techniques similar to machine binding except I don’t break the thread. The smallest stitches I can stand with a heavier needle. Double thread as opposed to the single strand I hand quilt with. This is hard on my hands and I only do this for maybe an hour a day. It takes days. When I have it all in place I trim my excess batting and backing and stitch the binding down carefully in the back. This process takes at least two weeks for any quilt beyond a crib size.