mkc

Still mulling this over.

If you didn't mind seeing machine stitching on the front (in the flange), you could make the flanged binding, thinking about attachment as far as how wide the flange piece and the main piece needed to be, and press it over so you could see the flange and machine stitch from the front in the flange.

Cut edge lined up with quilt edge, flange down, fold back to reveal flange "bead". Stitch in flange (can't use a 1/4 inch foot for this - you need the part that wraps to the back to be out of stitching's way. Can use a ditch stitching foot.

Then wrap the rest around to the back and hand stitch.

With the "normal" flanged binding, the flange fabric is a strip 1 5/8" wide and the bulk of what you see when done is a strip 1 3/8" wide, sewn together with a 1/4" seam. To make a reversed-attachment-method flange, the flange strip will be much narrower and the bulk much wider (still adding up to a finished binding width, after the 1/4" seam, of 2 1/2 inches if that's what you normally use for binding). You might need to experiment with strip widths to see what works.

I'll putz it the sewing room tomorrow to see if I can figure out strip widths.

Michelle