i trim mine first

Basketlady...you are the first one on this forum, besides me, who says she has put binding on quilt top before quilting! I guess I thought I was pretty weird for doing that, but it works for me. I usually stitch in the ditch or diagonals, but if I am sending the quilt out to a long armer, I don't do this cause they like to go off the edge. In this way, I always trim back and batt the last thing before I start hemming the binding by hand. Glad to know I'm not entirely alone. LOL.

Sue

I do trim the edges first .....Then I starch and pin the basting and then I sew it to the machine.....The starch makes a lot of diffrent and a nice finish (I saw it on one of Sharon S classes)........

I first do the quilting. Then I machine stitch the binding on the front and then trim the backing and batting. I trim, leaving about 1/8 inch of the batting and the binding so that my binding is filled. I lost points when my quilt was judged by not having full binding.