GemState

I have one for my Bernina. It works great, but does take some practice on the corners. I don't have it down pat yet but don't mind doing a little hand finishing on the corners when the rest goes so quickly. I have seen someone do the corners perfectly. I think it just takes quite a bit of practice.

romanojg

It sounds like the bias maker that used to be really popular for machines. I recently saw one on Sewing w Nancy; first time I had seen one in years. It does just what you said and I guess if it was large enough it would do the binding. Now my mind is spinning.

thepolyparrot

The Martelli system is really great if you do a lot of quilts or if you have arthritis in your hands and don't do hand bindings or something like that. It doesn't do front and back at the same time - you still have to sew the raw edge of your binding to the front of your quilt.

You can get just the Stitch n Ditch foot and spend a lot less than buying the whole system. This foot really does stitch in the ditch - but only along an edge, not out in the middle of the quilt. (adjustable)

It does mitered corners - you have to stop and start again, but there is a set of three sizes of Minute Minders that you can buy to make the precise miters for you.

The Zip Bind tool sets the size of the fold and the Zip Guns clip onto your measured binding to hold it in place, but these aren't strictly necessary to help you make good bindings.

Their online store is kind of confusing, but here are the binding tools: http://www.martellicatalog.com/mm5/m...tegory_Code=ZB

And here are their You Tube videos:
http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...l2.2.1.7-1l6l0

Dandish

I have one for my Janome Horizon, but I've not tried it yet. I got the dealer to throw it and the blue to bobbin case into the deal when I bought my machine. Here's a video of its use:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShT0VQ3BIUM

Watching the video made me want to try it, but I don't have a quilt ready for binding yet! Apparently you can use straight or decorative stitches, and there are 2 additional "strip feeders" that you can buy for 7/16 and 5/16 wide binding.

Sadiemae

I had the zip bind system years ago and it was a total waste of my time and money!!!

Prism99

I have tried a couple over the years, including the pricey Martelli one. The ones for domestic machines (that are made for quilt bindings) are very difficult to master and fussy. I would not recommend investing in one. Ones made for commercial machines are undoubtedly better. There are some binding attachments for domestic machines that work pretty well for sewing tasks, such as putting bias binding around the armholes of a child's dress, but those cannot take the bulk of a quilt.

It's one of those fantasies we all have that usually don't work out well in reality. At least, yet. Maybe someday someone will invent one that actually works for home quilters.......

Skittl1321

Bernina makes one that looks fantastic- but it is almost $300 - for one size of binding (they make multiple sizes).

I actually like the look of rounded corners, so I wouldn't mind just rounding them to use the binder.

Unfortunately, it will be years before I can justify the price...

Lucio

I purchased the binding attachment for my Designer 1 and it was a complete waste of money. Not one of the salespersons could demo it. I finally made an appointment with the owner of the shop for the demo. She said she had never been able to use it with anything other than commercial bias tape and had to curve her corners because it is a hassle to get a decent mitered corner. One has to be ever vigilant to keep the bias feeding "just so" into the funnel so that it will sew evenly on both sides. In the time it takes to master all of this one could easily do a binding without this expensive attachment.

luvTooQuilt

i have the zip bind- its nothing like what I saw... And the attachment I did see was exactly like the Janome binding attachment.. I need THIS for a pfaff..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShT0VQ3BIUM

Sadiemae

Call a Pfaff dealer and ask them.