Alas? ... I guess because it was after the long process, it sas alas! For me, in the binding stage the quilt really seems to come to life as we tidy up all the loose ends, burying them into the binding!
No foggy brain on your part. It was more on my part! As I was typing it out, I knew it really did not make sense. I tried to reword it and was only getting more bogged down, so I gave up.
OK ... Take Two ......... Machine sew the binding on the front of the quilt. On the inside of the seam (what gets buried in the binding) I sew close to the raw edge, to stitch all layers of the quilt and binding together, all the way around the quilt. Doing this, I find it helps keep all those layers in place, as I bring the loose binding from the front to the back, to hand stitch, instead of parts of it rolling or flipping around inside. Gives a nice, sharp, fully filled binding, once finished. Clear as Mud?? Maybe murky water at least?
It should be noted, that there's nothing "official" about doing this.
It's just my own habit/technique that I started doing and it works ... for me!