I think the original quilter attempted to do a pillowcase method and got confused about the location of the batting. I've done it myself - when I turned it inside out I had the batting on the outside. That's probably why the quilt was not completed. I'm going to second everyone's opinion to take out the quilting and separate the layers so that you can start out with a proper sandwich with the layers in the correct order. It's a pretty quilt, so it'll turn out just fine.