I have made 79 quilts and not one of them is mitered. I do straight sides every time. Haven't had a complaint yet. :-)

I have a quilt from over 12 years ago hanging up right now that I did my bindings on that way. yes, four different strips of binding. the last ones you would fold over your ends into the inside and then finish stitching. you can even hand stitch the ends closed then if you wish. simple, and no miters. I probably have a link somewhere for this but can't find it right now. I call it individual binding but that's evidently not what it's called, since I don't see it. Will continue to look.

Thanks everyone, I think I'm trying to hard to make this easy. I can miter corners just fine, but on some of my small little ones I really don't like the mitered corners. So thanks for the tut on youtube and the idea of using the top binding to put the dowl through. I would have never thought about that. So I guess I can finish up the two little snowmen for my girls before January is over.

I hate mitering and love rounded corners so I use bias binding and round corners. I've even added a border so that I could round without messing up blocks.

I did some recent placemats that way too.

I just sew the 2 opposite sides on and turn them. Then add the other two sides and fold under the ends to finish them. Nothing fancy, just done.

I have never seen this but like it and see where it is useful. Thanks for asking the question.

This looks lilke an interesting method - will have to give it a try.

thanks, this was a great tutorial.

Sorry, but I use doubled binding when I do this. See no reason not to.