No, because I like the look of hand sewing and I know that if I tried it by machine, my stitching would look horrid. Glad you found something that works for you..

I only hate it when I have to absolutely finish a quilt because of a deadline. Otherwise I find it quite relaxing as well, just sitting there, watching a few series...

To me, the quilt is instantly worth less when someone doesn't care enough to handstitch the binding. I know others may differ, but that's how I feel on the topic.

I have carpal tunnel syndrome so I only hand sew if it's small and not practical to machine sew. Otherwise I machine sew. It has nothing to do with how much I care-it would take me months just to do the binding alone. And I disagree that the quilt is instantly worth less. What a crappy thing to say.

Ditto! I love the binding process. And Gaga, I love your signature statement. Ditto for me on that too!

I love the part of hand sewing the binding down. I do like to hand sew but for some reason that is about all the hand sewing I do any more.

I, too, love hand sewing my binding! I pop in a movie, or watch football with my DH while doing it. I find it to be relaxing. However, I know that not everyone enjoys hand sewing. If doing your binding by machine is what you want to do then, by all means, do it that way!

Me too, except if I do too many in a row my fingers get sore. I have tried machine sewing binding and find it very frustrating.

I can hand sew the binding but don't like to. And I know sewing it by machine is much stronger than my hand sewing. Most of my quilts go to charity and I expect they are washed frequently. If I did the binding by hand, I expect the binding would eventually fall apart :( I will agree, it looks better when done by hand but it doesn't bother me enough to actually do it by hand.

Me too! I don't do any other hand sewing but I like sewing the binding. Guess partly because I know this means that quilt is almost done..