In a book I have called Kitchen Stitchin' the author called this kind of quilts self binding quilts. But she does not cut the edges. I tried this on placemats and it was fine and I have two really old quilts given to me that are bound this way. No puckers in them but than again they were hand quilted eons ago and are still being used today. Batting in one is almost completely destroyed but the quilt itself is as new.