Binding: UGH! I struggle with it. I think we need a session of positive thinking when it comes to binding. Maybe that will help we poor souls who exponentially dislike this final step in our quilting process. My quilt has been sitting here for a week waiting for the binding to magically adhere itself! Crumb buckets! Maybe we should all commit to spending at least an hour a week on our binding until it's finished!!! :shock: :lol:

I enjoy doing the binding as that means it will be finished!

I actually like binding. To me, that's the last little bit that will turn my quilt top into a real quilt! I really enjoy finishing the project and looking at a finished product that I started from scratch. I love hand quilting, so the hand work is relaxing to me. Post a picture when you're done, won't you!

I fear it

Binding is my favorite part of the quilt process. As I hand-stitch the binding on the quilt, I think of the person I am making it for and how much I love them, what I admire and respect about them, and what they have shown me.

For community service and charity quilts, I think similarly, trying to picture their face(s) as they receive what I've made and imagine how I have positively impacted their life in showing them that someone unseen and unknown cares about them. I have witnessed many of these faces, and many of them come back to me as deeply fond memories.

I machine sew the bindings on the front then hand bind while watching nothing on tv like Maryb1119. I do this for a friend that hates the binding part. I've done 15 for her so far this yr..

Sorry but that is my favorit part. In fact I often offer to do it for all our oppurtunity and charity quilts. I even sometimes do it for friends. I love to sit in the evening with a quilt over my lap and sew down binding. It is mindless work.

I love to bind! All of my friends who hate to bind call on me to finish the job :-D