I take issue with the word "cheating". How can a tried and true method of finishing your quilt edges be cheating? In our Reuse, recycle world you are choosing one of the "green" methods. I don't have the money to have a longarmer finish my quilts for me. My solution is to learn machine quilting on the machine I have. Tying is another method as is hand quilting. Art is arrived at from many directions. The only common ground between Salvador Dali & Grandma Moses was some of the same tools and the desire to put on canvas what was in their hearts and minds. Yet they are both great artists. Not to criticize your mother, but the main goal of people who have decided to be miserable is to make all around them miserable too. You can't fix it you can only refuse not to be sucked into that black hole. Keep quilting your way!