gal288

I'm with Quilting Grannie, I don't like to see the machine stitching on the front of the quilt.

I will admit, if I'm doing something simple, like a table runner or placemat, I will take the short cut, but generally for all my quilts, I hand stitch the back.

Krisb

Machine stitch to the front; hand stitch the back. I enjoy the process.

carolaug

I do it by machine...first to the back side then the front. [ATTACH=CONFIG]287356[/ATTACH]

SherryW

I machine stitch front and back. I don't like handwork.

KarenR

Wish I had one done that I could bind. Lots of UFO's floating my my house.

nls

.Machine stitch to the front, hand stitch to the back.

SuzieQuilts

Like everything else in quilting, there is not right way. I tend to machine in the front and hand stich in the back mainly for the reason that my machine stiching does not look as nice as my hand stiching. I have a friend that does a beautiful job machine stiching her quilts, so I feel it is a personal choice and should just go with your strengths.

EasyPeezy

I machine stitch to the front, bring it to the back and pin (making sure my SID will cover it) then put a fine line of Elmers Washable School Glue then iron. Remove pins and off to the sewing machine and SID on the front. I do the pinning/glueing/ironing about a foot at a time so I don't have a gazillion pins poking me. Sometimes I use a toothpick for the glue to push the fabric in. I probably should do a zig-zag all around first but I'm too lazy for that.

masufa

I do it the way you do. I recently went to a quilt show judging and the judge said that machine stitching the final side was a big NO NO it should always be hand stitched to the back side.

reneaunoel

The last item I finished (my first Quilt Runner) was done in a Yellow and Blue, Rob Peter to Pay Paul drunkards path. There was so much quilting, when I turned the binding, it looked forlorn and lonely. So for once, I used a 1/4" echo quilting. Around and around and around, for all of the 2" of binding. Best part, even I could not tell where the binding was turned.

On all other quilted items, I have attached by machine on front, then turned, pressed, pinned and blind stitched by hand. Usually lap or baby quilt size! The Quilt Runner project wound up a little larger than I intended, at 92" x 38". So I was very happy with being able to machine stitch the entire binding!