I hate doing the binding!!! So my sister hand sews it to the back for me!

Always machine sew the binding to the front of the top, turn it over and hand stitch the back. Looks good to me.

I do both depending on wat the quilt is for. Any quilt for a toddler gets the machine treatment. Everything else is hand sewn on the back.

I want to try a decorative stitch like quilting angle does. I think it's a neat idea!
peace

As I've said before about the only thing I do by hand is 'fork to mouth' ... that said, I do hand stitch down the edges of a quilt's hanging sleeve and hate every stitch I make.

I have been sewing by machine for my wallhangings and by hand for bed quilts. My hands get really stiff and sore when I do it by hand.

I machine sew the top and hand stitch the back. I think this makes the quilt look better for all the binding stitches to be hidden.

For utility quilts (which includes baby quilts), I machine stitch front and back. For large bed quilts I machine stitch to the front and hand stitch to the back.

I have had many of my quilts in competition so I have always sewn the binding to the front by machine and then hand stitched it to the back. With the beginning of arthritis, I am not sure how much longer I will be able to do the hand stitching.

I machine hand it on then hand sew on the back :)

I have taken 2 quilt classes & we have hand sewn the binding onto my quilts. I have yet to machine stitch it on.

debra