redstilettos

I'd like to get rid of (even more) scraps. But I'm worried about it getting too bulky with all the seams if I do both front and back with designs.

Has anyone successfully done it? Do I have to be careful about how detailed both the front and back are before I decide to sandwich them together?

Am I looking at a lot of broken needles?
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Thanks in advance!

Jane Quilter

I've worried too. But I have done it, and it works fine if you don't hand quilt (and i have no experience with LA). But I've never done it with really small pieces because it does add a lot of weight.

Tartan

I would be leery of using a really scrappy back but the ones that Bonnie Hunter does with large pieces of shirts, I would do if I was FMQ. If you were going to use your walking foot to quilt, a really scrappy back should be fine.

NZquilter

What machine do you plan to quilt it on? I know my little Brother would hiccup and protest with the extra bulk in the seams, but my old Singer 15-91 eats seams and bulk like it's not there. I think the Jukis would do the same as a lot of quilters love them.

feline fanatic

I have done multiple double sided quilts with no issues but I quilt on a longarm.

Here are links to three of them showing both front and back

My first quilt off the longarm

Woo Hoo! I won 2nd place People's Choice at Bennington Quiltfest

"East Meets Midwest" an Asian scrappy quilt

helou

No problem especially if you fmq quilt it.... you can then go around what would seem to you as being to bulky to put a needle through...
here are a couple I did
different people different taste

Jingle

By the time I piece a quilt I do not have the desire to piece a backing too. Sometimes I have to add a large border on the sides of the backing to make it larger.

Irishrose2

I did one for my daughter. It was no problem to FMQ except where I wanted to outline flowers on the front. I finally decided to let my concerns go and quilt the front the way I wanted. So the back has some FMQed flowers floating around. Who cares? I don't and the recipient doesn't. [ATTACH=CONFIG]582148[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]582149[/ATTACH]It did bother me a little that I to adjust the border on the back to fit, but again, who cares? Call a design element.

dunster

I've done it, on a DSM as well as a longarm. One quilt I sent to my SIL and she thought the back was the front, until her DH pointed out the better design on the other side.

KalamaQuilts

all my quilts are double sided. My long armer has never complained or even commented that they were hard.

My reason is a double sided quilt only takes half as much shelf space as two quilts
The expense is halved, just one batt and with two tops, only being charged for quilting one quilt.

And it helps to keep up with finished quilts rather than a closet full of unfinished tops.

My Dear Jane is double sided and I hand quilted it so I know it can be done