Binding progress

I got the rest of the binding sewn on, the corners mitered, and the quilt trimmed. Then I managed to get one side handstitched.

I taught my Mom about how to make a quilt. I was still learning myself. There was no internet, no YouTube videos, no blogs so everything I learned was by the few books I could find at the local small library. Eventually my Mom found other quilters and taught classes. She was giving me a hard time on how I was sewing my corners. I just overlapped them. Here is a corner on the first quilt I hand quilted.

I don't know how I found out about how to sew a mitered corner by machine. I bought the tool and with going over the instructions many times, I manage to conquer the technique. The first time I did this, it took me an hour and a half to sew the four corners! I can now sew all four corners in less than 10 minutes. My folded mitered corners never turned out very good so sewing them is my jam.