Originally Posted by butterflywing
next time, just cut the backing larger and wrap it around to the front and either blindstitch or machine stitch carefully. easy as it gets.
If you cut it large enough, you will be able to catch it folded so the binding is double thickness. I call this edging, not binding, but call it what you will, it works to hold a quilt together quite nicely. Also, machine stitching holds nice and tightly, goes faster and looks just fine.
I saw a quilt done with no binding at all. The layers were sewn together inside out, with the front and back right sides together. A small section was left open, the quilt was turned and the open section hand-sewed together. It made an interesting look because the quilt went right to the edge. If I tried this, I would top sew the edge.