Since I taught myself how to quilt before there were classes or the Internet, I looked at quilts my grandmother had made. She pieced by hand and machine, but quilted her pieces by hand. Before she married, she was a seamstress. She was very fussy -- so I was never tempted to ask her "how" to quilt. Twenty years later, I regretted that.
That being said, she sewed bindings on the back of her quilts, and hand stitched it onto the front. I have one of her quilts that the backing was made larger that the front and became the binding that was hand stitched to the front. That binding has not worn as well as the ones w/individual bindings stitched on last. Knowing that, I stitch the binding onto the back, and hand-stitch it to the fronts of my quilts.