I did my Downy quilt that way. I cut the back about two inches larger than the top and then just folded it twice to make a binding.

Our guild does all of our community quilts this way. We cut the backing about 1 1/4" larger all around after it has been quilted. Fold it in half once and then fold again down to your stitching line and top stitch neatly. Use a decorative stitch if you wish. You can even mitre the corners with this method. This was the method that my now almost 90 year old mother-in-law taught me as it was the only way she knew how to bind quilts, so it has been used for a long time. It seems to wear well and this width of binding makes it hard to tell that you haven't used a separate binding. It is also much faster to complete and no one but a quilter would even notice.

Love the pink quilt. The colors are beautiful and I always bind from the back to the front. That is the way the quilting teacher taught us.

The method used where the backing is brought to the front is called self-binding. Penny Halgren gives an explanation with illustrations at this site. http://how-to-quilt.com/cms/index.ph...=143&Itemid=39

It shows how to do the corners to give a mitered look.

I never have. I know that the stitches on the underside of my quilt would be crooked and unsatisfactory ... so I always secure binding by hand. I once wrapped the quilt backing around the front edge of a quilt so binding and back were one piece of fabric, but even then I sewed it by hand.

It depends on the wear the quilt will have. The binding is the place where it needs to be durable. Sometimes when you pull the binding over instead of a reg binding it will wear out.

You say you havn't perfected the corners on your binding.
Go to www.quilterstv.com and under Quilters Cafe scroll down and you will see the video I did on binding.

[quote=PatriceJ]the only time i don't bring the backing fabric to the front as binding is if it wouldn't also look good as a traditional binding.

i make sure to fold it double before bringing it to the front, just as i would traditional binding.[/quote

I always do it this way, partially because it is fast and partially because I hate hand stitching!!! Whenever I enter one of my quilts to be judged, I know that they will count me down for it. But I don't care. Sometimes I use a decorative stitch & sometimes just a straight stitch. I think it looks fine.

I have on the doll quilt. but I am trying to teach my self to quilt, so I struggled to get the miter corner. but I just watched a how to on binding, and I was not doing it right. God bless. penny

That is how I have binded all my quilts, but I also like the idea of bringing the front to the back... I love that pink baby quilt. I am waiting a few more weeks to find out what my second grandbaby will be, then off to make another quilt for a baby.