I trim the batting and backing, and then baste the edges all around. I sew the binding to the front and roll to the back, mitering the corners as I go. I use the little girls hair clips to hold the bindng in place (I have several hundred of them) and then sew down by hand. Then I block the quilt before I send it away.

Serging seems like a waste of thread to me. I trim my quilts, then sew the binding on and that could be to the front or the back. Turn the binding and machine stitch. Sometimes it is a decorative stitch and sometimes a straight stitch. I like my bindings full and I do not care for hand stitched bindings at all - I don't care how good you are. It looks unfinished to ME. But, that is my personal opinion.

The nice thing about this hobby is we can all do it our own way.

I sew the binding on the frontby machine, trim the leftovers by hand wiht a rotary cutter, then finish the back by sewing on the front to back on the sewing machine.

After trimming, I sew it to the back first with machine,then fold to the top and top stitch along the edge very close to the edge. Too much work to do it by hand and I like the look of the neat topstitching. I miter the corners of the binding so they are nice and sharpl

I do mine the by sewing to the front and hand stitching on the back, but I trim first. I have watched Eleanor Burns and she sews the binding on before she squares up/trims! As long as whatever we do works for us, I think we are, as they say, "golden".

Yup. I do mine the same way. It is classic and probably because it works every time.