DebD800

A recent post made me think perhaps I've been doing my bindings incorrectly. I feel silly even asking about this, but when trimming a quilt after it's been longarmed do most people trim it up to the quilt edge and add binding, or leave 1/4 inch of batting and put the binding over that?

I've had my longarm since spring of this year and I only quilt for myself and family members. I always trim to the edge of the quilt, since I've got the space to spread the quilts out and trim them and my family members generally don't so they're happy to have me do it for them (plus, the extra trimmings are my "payment" for doing the longarm work). One person's quilts tend to be a little wonky and on hers I quilt them as square as possible then square up the whole thing when trimming at the end. I understand that when quilting for the public the customer should be asked how they prefer it and different people may do things differently, but in general do people use the batting as part of their binding area or do they start at the quilt edge? Or does it depend on the width of the binding?

Thanks for your comments!
DebD800