Double-Fold Binding:
Carefully remove basting threads or safety pins. Trim batt and lining even with the top. Baste around quilt 3/16" from the edges.
Cut binding strips 2 1/4" wide on lengthwise or crosswise grain of fabric. Place end of two strips perpendicular to each other, right sides together. Stitch diagonally and trim to 1/4". Join all strips end to end. Press the seam allowances open.
Cut the beginning of the binding strip at a 45° angle. Turn the edge in 1/4" and press. Fold the binding strip in half lengthwise, wrong sides together, and press. Lay the binding strip, longer side down, on the right side of the quilt top, aligning raw edges of the binding and the quilt. Begin sewing at the second fold, stopping 1/4" from the first corner; backstitch. Remove the needle from the quilt and cut the threads.
Fold the binding up, then back down even with edge of the quilt. Begin stitching at the edge of next side, backstitch to secure and continue sewing. Repeat at all corners. When nearing starting point, trim binding at double-thickness fold and tuck the end into folded strip. Continue sewing and backstitch. Blind stitch the folded edge to the tucked strip.
Turn the binding to back of the quilt and blindstitch to the lining, covering the previous line of stitches. Fold the corners as shown and blindstitch.
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