Originally Posted by
quiltsfor
I never leave any part of my binding 'empty' I match my binding edge up with the back edge of my quilt and sew it down. Then fold it around to the front of the quilt, pulling it snugly around the edge, so that the quilt completely fills the binding strip. So I guess I've always had 'chunky' binding!
I also always make a wide binding. I think they set off the quilt so much better, IMO.
The idea of a chunky binding is to double the width of the batting that goes into the binding and keep the binding width the same. So you end up with an extra fat binding.