When I make small baby quilts, I don't always bind them, I use the "burping" method, sewing right sides together on top of the batting, trimming the backing and batting, sewing around the perimeter of the quilt, leaving a 6" opening that I pull the quilt through, then I whipstitch the opening and sew 1/2" around the edge in a "fake" binding. Otherwise, I sew the binding on by machine and hand stitch the binding to the back.