I prefer blind stitch also. I don't like thread to show. If the thread shows I'm afraid the kids/cats will somehow work it loose, then I'm mending *ICK*.

I blind stitch. I don't like it to show. On two baby quilts I did a cute machine stitch. Just to make them tougher for all the washing.

I think most of us use the blind stitch (also called the blind hem stitch) because that is what we learned so it is easiest for us. With it, the thread is advanced in the fold of the binding. There are at least two other, equally good, invisible stitches that can be used for binding. The appliqué stitch, where the thread is advanced behind the fabric, and the ladder stitch, where the thread is advanced behind the fabric and in the fold.

Matching the thread color to the binding (or using a neutral for multicolored bindings), keeping the stitches as tiny and as close together as possible, and pulling the thread snugly enough to secure the stitches, yet not so tight as to pucker the binding all help to make hand stitching invisible.

I hate hand sewing (except embroidery) so I sew my binding onto the back, bring it forward to the front and then machine it!

Karen xx

Back in Home Ec, they called it a slip stitch. Take a tiny piece of the quilt and slip the needle into the fold of the binding an go a little ways and come back out and take a tiny thread or 2 of the quilt. I don't know if I am doing it right or wrong but thats what I do.