I was just thinking about this the other day! I like wide bindings;sometimes to me the narrow ones don't complement the quilt, they just bind the edge. I often bring the backing forward for binding, especially on flannel quilts. When I was a kid, we always slept with homemade quilts--that is all we had. I remember spending the night with my non-quilting grandma who had store-bought blankets with satin bindings, and I thought they were the fanciest things I had ever seen!