Mine was not the outside fabric. I had made a quilt for theNEC quilt show. I read the sizes and it stated the quilt had to be a metre in one direction. Oh no mine was less. I had made a paper pieced Christmas cactus what to do. I made extra shutters on the sides also using paper piecing. This particular year the weather was terrible and living in a small village I could not get out. I found a blanket of my grandma and used that as batting on the shutters. From the outside the only way to tell was by the feel the blanket was heavy on the sides. The stitching etc was no different.