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Originally Posted by EasyPeezy (Post 6088493)

Most people who sew the binding to the back turn it and use a decorative stitch
on the front. Personally, I prefer to stitch to the front, turn, glue, press then SID
on the front while catching the binding at the back. Takes some practice but
I think I'm getting pretty good at it now.

Yup, did this for the first time myself...used a SID walking foot (newly acquired for this purpose) and chose a decorative stitch that the stitch pattern goes both left and right of the center needle position and voila, stitched that binding down beautifully. I will never hand sew another binding! I've never glued anything yet...didn't know I could...but used my little Clover wonder clips which also are very nice to use vs. pins. :-)

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Originally Posted by nativetexan (Post 6088631)

I used a decorative stitch on this table runner. Did it on a large quilt too but can't find a photo.

Love it..very nice

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Originally Posted by Tartan (Post 6088544)

I like to use Charisma's QB tutorial of Quick machine binding with flange. I match the flange colour to the back fabric colour. When I stitch along the flange in the front, the thread does show on the back but with the matching thread, it isn't noticeable.

I machine bind all the time and this is the way I do it. I know some people do not like the idea of machine quilting but my hands do not handle that much hand sewing well anymore.