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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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. :)

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.

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!