Oops. Sorry. Didn't notice the date and didn't read all the most recent posts on this. So glad you managed to pull this off. Your friend will be thrilled to have it.

Just checked out the rest of the posts and saw your redone binding...it looks great! You did a beautiful job on both runner and binding.

It looks to me like it should be mitered at least on the outside corners. Is it? I think with a bias cut binding the inside corners should work - but I would also miter the outer corners.

Woops! I didn't see the original date either - looks like we all fell into the same hole... :)