OK, my two cents here as well. I hate handwork so do everything by machine. I was taught early how to cut the strip, fold in half, stitch on the front and turn to the back then sew by hand. Instead, I cut my strip one quarter inch larger than normal and that extra results in an eighth inch more of the binding strip on the back to make sure I catch it when I stitch it in the ditch from the front. (make sense?) The nite I mentioned this method at a class, no one had heard of doing it that way but I walked around the store and found two or three samples that were done the same way. As one of the posters stated, good pinning is the way to ensure that you catch the binding strip while stitching on the front.