Calling
@Ploshkin !
I have just finished a quilt top that is crying out for a flanged binding. I know how to make one in principle, although I would just like to check that the flange strip should be 1/4" wider than the binding strip. It doesn't seem like very much by the time the flange is folded.
The big question I have, though, is about the final sewing down. There is no way I'm stitching in the ditch - I always sew my bindings by hand because I don't like the extra row of machine stitching on the back, and adding the stresses of stitching in the ditch to this would be torture...
I believe,
@Ploshkin, that you have mentioned in the past that you hand stitch the binding down, leaving the flange free. Do you do this by folding the flange up and (slip or ladder) stitching from the inside of the flange/binding onto the quilt? Or do you do running stitch through the join between the flange and binding from the top?
I hope that makes sense...
(Help welcome from anyone else with experience of flanges as well, of course!)