I may be able to answer some of your questions - if you take a quick visit to my site, www.christianlanequilters.com
My husband, Jim, and I are both full time quilters. We are also the people who own the copyright to our product and sell FatBacks®
FatBacks® is not a generic name. It is our name for wide width fabrics (from 108" wide to 120" wide) that is cut at three and one quarter yards long. It is priced at three yards. The extra one quarter yard is free.
A FatBack® is a quilt backing specifically cut for a queen sized quilt which is to be quilted on a longarm machine.
A "standard" queen sized batting is 90" x 108". A FatBack®
is at least 108" wide and is 117" long. The extra free quarter yard allows us to mount our work properly.
Customers can purchase wide fabrics from many sources, but we are the only sellers who can legally use the word of our product.
We had to contact Joanne's years ago, because they also thought our name was generic and were using it in their national sales flyers. They stopped immediately.
We sell our FatBacks® and we also sell wide fabrics in half yard increments to quilters and to customers for other purposes.
I can answer specific questions about products - check our our web-site first and ask me what you would still link to know!
I hope this will not be seen as an advertisement and as a simple explanation.
Wilma Cogliantry
Christian Lane Quilters
Berlin, CT
www.christianlanequilters.com