Timely tutorial!! Hopefully I will be getting my quilt to this stage soon and I will try it! I guess I'd better practice first, but the instructions are very easy to follow!

Great Idea....will have to try this on the wallhanging I am doing now........any more ideas?????????????

I also do this the same way except I use the applique stitch on my machine (babylock). It's the stitch that does three small straight stitches and then a side stitch to pick up the binding edge. If the stitch is set small enough then it looks like hand stitching on the front. I use the color of the binding for the top thread and the color of the backing for the bobbin and it becomes almost invisible as a result!

great tute and is very tempting to finish a quilt that way but i'm too set in my ways and still prefer the hand stitched look..........

Thanks, that was both clear and helpful... Will be trying it soon.

great! but I have a question: When you say top stitch the front, are you referring to a straight stitch or a special stitch? If you use a special stitch ,would you describe it?
I haven't made a decent binding yet.
carol(ceegee)

Yes thank you for the info! I do like the look of hand stitching the binding, but it takes me so long. It takes at least 1 hour per side on smaller quilts and as much as 2 hours per side on larger quilts. Does it take everyone else this long or am I just REALLY slow?? I have only been quilting about 2 years so I'm still somewhat new to it.

I just did this method this past weekend. Works like a charm. Looking forward to more tutorials. Thanks.

Hi, many thanks for sharing this. One question if I could, why do you sew a "generous" 1/4 inch seam?

I will try this technique. Thank you.

This is a very nice tutorial. Thank you so much! Your quilts are beautiful. What is the name of the one in the bottom picture with the squares and stars? Thank you.