Oh but when I DO finish a quilt, I do the binding by machine. It works for me. On kids quilts I'll even use a decorative stitch on the binding in contrasting colors and it looks so cute. I'm not a 'hand' person. The only part of a quilt that I will do by hand is to stitch down the hanging sleeve after it is attached by machine, cuz that can not be done by machine or the stitching would show to the front of the quilt.