Whoo. I babysat today--a last-minute arrangement with a former coworker--and I'd completely forgotten how time-intensive babies are. I'm whipped, and I got nothing done today, on my quilt or anything else!
Thanks for all the advice. I'm machine quilting; not doing fantastic, but clearly doing better than when I started. (It helped that I switched machines.) For burying the tails, I've got tons of threads where I started and stopped, and thought I remembered they weren't supposed to be cut.
For the binding, I think I'm understanding you all correctly. The batting in the quilt should go all the way to the edge, with the binding over it, and the binding is just fabric, no 'extra' batting in it, right?