I make queen sized quilts. I have stopped buying nine yards of fabric for just one piece backs. Now I buy six yards and put two vertical stripes of about six inches or I piece the center panel of three equal pieces and just use a solid for the outside panels. Uses up big chunks of my stash and somehow doesn't seem as expensive. As was noted before if you are hand quilting I think it would be hard if there are to many seams. I quilt on a little Janome and have had no problem with the seams.