I'm another one who is not a great quilter yet (in 3.5 years I STILL have not done any serious FM quilting - it scares me to death). But binding?? I can bind a quilt like a house a-fire, and I enjoy it. I can't use a thimble though, so have to have those little leather stick on the end of your finger things, and they are getting wicked hard to find. But I do love the binding process.