I have done that at least three different times. No problem, in fact I think having the binding there gave it some stability the same way the pins do.

When I was researching this earlier, I found a blog post by someone who says that she does some stitch-in-the-ditch quilting, then binds the quilt, then continues with the quilting, for this very reason. It also means she's trimmed her batting and backing, any reduction in size being helpful when using a domestic sewing machine.

Thankyou for all the replies. I'm quite surprised and intrigued - till I looked at my finished quilt this afternoon, decided I hadn't done enough quilting on it and asked myself this question, it had never occurred to me that a quilt could be made in any order other than all the quilting followed by binding. I couldn't see any obvious reason why more quilting couldn't be added, and it's great to have had that confirmed here and in other discussions.

Absolutely!

I'm glad you asked the question. And the timing is as if you'd been in my head an hour ago when I was thinking of posing the very same one. In five years of quilting, I've never quilted more after binding, because I was satisfied. But one quilt I have just very recently done (or so I thought) seems to need more --just a little --in the border. I wondered if doing more quilting would cause puckering or any other problem I hadn't thought of.

Yep, getting ready to do that myself since I've decided that one of my quilts needs more quilting in the border for stability.

Rob

It must be something in the air today! I love imagining quilters on different continents all simultaneously deciding, rather belatedly, that their latest quilt needs some more quilting, and thinking "I wonder if..."

If I'm planning to quilt the border with a design that needs to be centered down the length of the border, I'll bind the quilt first, and then quilt the border. That way I can make sure that my design is perfectly centered.

I am in the process of doing that now. I have made my dear hubby a quilt of valor. Used a panel and pieced blocks. He still does not know anything about it. Have a couple of the pieced blocks to echo stitch and the panel blocks to do highlighting stitching on, it is coming along wonderfully.

Been there, done that. Quilt didn't explode, catch on fire, or self-destruct :thumbup: