Lenna from the Stitching Cow has written a couple of really great posts on Hand Quilting.

• Tips for Beginning Hand Quilting
• Perfect Hand Quilting Without Pain

After reading her many tips, even I feel confident to try hand quilting again. I’d love to hear some advice on the most preferred batting to use for hand quilting. I remember years ago trying to use the Warm & Natural batting I bought by the yard from Joanne’s, with horrible results and lots of pain. It was just too hard to quilt through. I can’t remember now who it was but someone told me that particular batting is for machine-use only.

What batting do you use for hand quilting?

Lenna’s photo used with permission… thanks!

Emma, a Quilting Blogger from Australia, has created this great picture tutorial on how she invisibly hand-stiches binding to the back of a quilt.

This is very useful for those of us that have never hand-sewn a binding before… one day I’ll have to give it a try.

I came across these three video tutorials created by Sharon Schamber where she shows using Elmer’s School Glue for attaching binding to a quilt. It sure looks easy when she does it. Yesterday afternoon, I picked up some of the glue, we’ll see how well this works out.

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Part 3:

Shelley Rodgers has just updated her tutorial, Joining the Ends of Double-fold Binding. It is super-easy to understand with all the wonderful photos, and the results are perfect.

Elisa Wilson takes a look at a few troublesome bindings and find solutions to fix the problems. Sew your binding on by machine from start to finish.

My sister and her family got me the book for Christmas. I’m looking forward to trying out the various examples. Order the book - Magical Machine Quilting & Embellishment II

While trying to solve a Binding mess I created yesterday, I found some useful tips and techniques.

• Continuous Quilt-Binding
• Ending Double-fold binding
• Binding Tips
• Quiltsmart 101: Completing Your Quilt

Here’s a good video from All People Quilt.

A great overview on finishing a quilt includes: adding borders, batting, pin basting, machine quilting with a walking foot, free-motion quilting and binding.