flange binding
 

Well i suck at machine binding did my placemats by hand untill a friend showed me her quilt. I looked up jenny`s baby quilt with flange and now im using it on my placemats havent tried a quilt yet but will sometime.
Gale

If you like the hand stitching part, and not excited over the machine top stitching, you can still do the handwork with your flange binding.

I just love the flange look, for that little knife edge of colour.

Howeverrrr ..... after using it on some projects, what I didn't like about the flange, was that despite how narrow the flange was, it would flip around a bit, and was worse after washing. So, the last few I've done, instead of stitching by machine at the end, I hand stitched on the front.

Lays flat, shows off that sliver of colour even batter,
because it is locked in place and stays even.
Happy Dance for Me!

Charismah's got a great tutorial on flanged binding here on Quilting Board

Quick Machine Binding with Flange