Pat Sloan has a good tutorial on binding with machine on her blog, check it out. I've been using her method lately and even I get beautiful results.

k3n, what great morning glory fabric in your quilt. You don't happen to have any scraps left that you'd like to trade for? If you do, please PM me and let's see if we can work something out!!!
Hugssssssss and smilesss, wildlinda

I only do my bindings by machine. I fold it in half and sew it to the back of the quilt first and then fold it over to the front of the quilt and stitch it down with a straight stitch about 1/8" from the edge. It works great.
Look at Kaye Wood's website, she has a good video for doing binding.
Sharon W.

Go to you tube and search "Sharon Schamber Quilting" and lots of stuff will come up. there's more than 1 on binding

Hi Linda - I'm sorry but this was scraps that I was given by someone else or I'd happily send you some :-( . It IS pretty though, isn't it. :D

Here it is although all the pics are missing for some reason.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-25080-1.htm

On some quilts I do the machine stitch on the front after attaching binding on the back. I try to pull binding over so when I stitch it fall below the binding on the back. I uses a decorative stitch that grabs the edge of the binding and goes into the body of the quilt by just a hair. I use 2 1/4 for my binding width.

I hate hand sewing anything. For a binding, I like for it to be a noticable part like the rest. I usually start with a 3 inch strip. Fold it in half, press. Turn the edges under by half, press. My binding is then 3/4 inch. Pin the binding to the quilt witht he fold on the edge. Then... sew. Both sides are sewn at the same time.

I love doing the binding. Because then I know I'm getting close to finishing it. I too make a three 1/2 in, fold in half, sew it on with a half in. seam, fold to the front, and just barely cover the seam. I use a decorative stitch that looks like a half moon. and catches only one stitch on the left. Isn't that as plain as rain?