do you hate hand sewing down your binding
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I have carpal tunnel syndrome so I only hand sew if it's small and not practical to machine sew. Otherwise I machine sew. It has nothing to do with how much I care-it would take me months just to do the binding alone. And I disagree that the quilt is instantly worth less. What a crappy thing to say.
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I, too, love hand sewing my binding! I pop in a movie, or watch football with my DH while doing it. I find it to be relaxing. However, I know that not everyone enjoys hand sewing. If doing your binding by machine is what you want to do then, by all means, do it that way!
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I can hand sew the binding but don't like to. And I know sewing it by machine is much stronger than my hand sewing. Most of my quilts go to charity and I expect they are washed frequently. If I did the binding by hand, I expect the binding would eventually fall apart I will agree, it looks better when done by hand but it doesn't bother me enough to actually do it by hand.
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