gramacheri

I feel like it's the icing on the cake. I Love icing and I love cake so wqhen I finish, I can have a nice piece of cake with icing and not feel guilty!!!

jcrow

My sister taught me the invisible ladder stitch when I bound my first quilt. I loved how it turned out. It was truly invisible. I didn't know the name for it until I read your post just now, so thanks for telling me what it's called. It takes me a bit longer than whipstitching, but so worth it.

BrendaY

Choosing the binding fabric is just as much fun as piecing the quilt! I love using stripes cut on the bias for mine, as that just adds more excitement to the finished quilt. Plus... most of my quilts are little ones.. yes, I waste some fabric, but the final result is worth it to me.

Nona

I like to do bindings. In fact at our service bee, I try to get as many bindings to do as are available. I like to stitch by hand in the evenings in the living room with my husband. At least we can share some of my sewing time rather than just me cooped up in my sewing room. At first they were more difficult, but the more you do the easier to finish. I can take them with me when we have doctor appontments or traveling in the car. It's just one of the steps to quiliting. The next time I get out to Phoenix I'll find you and if you have any more to bind I'll give you a hand.

spokanequilter

I love hand sewing the binding on the back... especially in the winter when it's chilly and I can have the quilt laying over my lap and watch a good movie...

teacherbailey

I'm with you.....I like absolutely, positively NOTHING about binding. I follow my grandmother's habit of bringing the backing to the front as about a 1" "binding" and sewing it down by machine, so I avoid binding at all.

karate lady

The quiet time for me as I do it sitting in front of the TV and just relax as I sew. Also it is the final touch to a quilt and time for a new one to start.

margecam52

I like to bind quilts. For me it's relaxing...and allows me to "wind down" from the quiltmaking/quilting.

QUILT4JOY

I love to use bias binding that has no seams to deal with. Cutting the binding in one continuous loop is easy for me. And there is really no waste fabric when done this way. I also prefer bias binding because it holds up better. I've experienced what happens with binding cut on the grain. It ravels at the fold over the quilt front to back and happens much sooner than the life of a well used quilt.

nstitches4u

Being finished with it! LOL. Not my favorite part of quilting. LOL