Originally Posted by
Candace
Only if the fabric is light with little patterning. If you have pieces of your quilt top sewed down to it, the fabric could show through any lighter quilt top fabric. Does that make sense? That's why most folks use muslin or white fabric as the base. Now, if you're using dark fabrics only on top it wouldn't matter as much. Though it would be safest to pick out your top fabrics and place them over your 'what was I thinking' fabric to see if it shows through.
Remember to try it with the backside of your "what was I thinking" fabric--it might be ok that way. I have done a lot of these on fabric I didn't want to use otherwise. Nice way to get rid of good chunks of it. Good luck.
And another possibility would be to use the "back side" of the fabric to sew your strips on--the reverse side is nearly al