I've tried it -- and my work looked so crappy I went by to machine sewing the front on and hand sewing the back of the binding.

Same here. I use a zig zag stitch on my baby quilts.

Thank you for all your answers and suggestions. I'm going to try machine quilting on these 2 quilts in a couple of weeks. I really enjoy your input.

Thanks for the information and video.

This is exactly how I do it too, except I just use a straight stitch. Did fancy stitch of leaves on one for my hubby and that was it. i like the straight stitch bets, i know, I'm a little boring sometimes.

But I will never hand bind again. UGH takes soooooo looooonnggg!

I do binding by machine, unless it goes into a quilt show. then it must be hand sewn down after folding over to back. Judges are fussy that way.

Can anyone post pictures?
Amma? MaMaw???
I tried this and Wasn't really happy with the results.
Can anyone explain this indepth?
Thanks
Kirsten

I do a lot of mine by hand also. And although I didn't read all of this thread, I hope I am not repeating what others have already said.

Sew the binding back first, then press the binding away from the quilt, running the tip of the iron into the mitre. Turn the project over and again press the top along the binding to compress the sandwich. At this point, I also pin in the mitered corners. I fold and pin the edge on one side near the corner and then the adjacent side while the corner fabric is somewhat standing up. I fold the corner fabric last and use a pin to shove the folded bias in and make a perfect mitered corner.

I also use decorative stitches, using varigated thread.

Hope this is clear. Suzanne

i do all my binding by machine. i cut my strips 2 1/4 inches-fold them in half and iron. i sew it on the back, fold it to the front and use either a 3 step zig zag or decorative stitch. i hate sewing by hand so i'm happy with this method.

Did you watch this Youtube video? I think it does the best job. Although this is for invisible machine binding, it would work for decorative machine binding as well -- just change the thread to a nice decorative color and use a feather stitch instead of the blind hem stitch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wprg5...os=LoS-hHjZYis