This is the way I was taught to sew on the binding. My favorite and best looking way is to take the binding, top and batting to a quilter and she long arm quilts it and then sews on the binding to the back, folds and machine sews with pretty feather stitches. It looks so pretty! Other than that I must hand sew it, not too bad for lap quilts, but a big quilt...nope.
Judithb
"I cut the edge clean (and square) AFTER the binding is sewn down. Then I turn the binding and hand stitch (for the nicer ones). Sometimes, I sew the binding to the back of the quilt, trim the edge, turn the binding to the front and use a decorative stitch with my machine to sew it down." From Martina.