Originally Posted by
Boston1954
I know I'm going to sound dumb for asking this, but, what does "face" mean?
Facing is kinda like binding, but you pull it so that none of the binding is visible from the front of the quilt. This means that you sew four separate pieces of binding (for a rectangular quilt), and don't need to mitre the corners.
If you scroll to the bottom of the linked tutorial, you can see how it looks on the front and back