I was doing a hild's quilt last month and when I got to the point where I would trim to do the binding - I figured that it was a shame to cut off all of that extra - when there was enough for binding - so I trimmed all around the quilt leave about 1" or so in order to turn to the front and turn under, pinned - sewed..it worked great...and made the project so easy - way faster than having to do a separate binding - I will surely use this method again....