Thread: I really ned help on a backing....
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Old 03-09-2012, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Learner747 View Post
You have an AMISH quilt top!! An AMISH quilt top!!! I agree with JJean: a plain backing and hand quilt it. After all you have an AMISH quilt top! Look up on their websites and see how much your gift is worth. I bought one more than twenty years ago in PA and paid a month's salary for it. You have a true treasure and wonderful friends. You must be a special lady.
My thoughts exactly. I wouldn't change a thing about the top, would make a back that's in keeping with the top, and hand quilt it. (Well maybe saying that I would hand quilt it is going too far. I haven't hand quilted anything... yet.)
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