Originally Posted by sewsewquilter
Thanks Lesley! Good information on your yardage usage. How much yardage do you think you used on your background fabric on the front of the quilt?
deb
Sorry, perhaps I didn't word it very well. The 15 yards were the Kona natural I used in each block/tri with my batiks, but don't forget that all my inbetween tris were made from it too. I think I have a length about 1 1/4 yards x 16in left.
I bought 3 yards of wide (120in?) Kona natural for my backing fabric in addition to what went in the front - it's slightly different to the front Kona cotton too - feels finer. I also bought 2 yards for all the corner stones and binding, but probably have almost a yard left over, so you could definitely get away with 1 1/2 yards for that. I cut the first diagonal so that I could get proper bias binding, then cut the cornerstones from that triangle I had cut away. My binding is double, on the bias, and I cut it 1 3/4in wide. Hope that helps.