Originally Posted by
Moira in N.E. England
I have made a small (42 inch square) top for a child’s quilt and have the perfect piece of fabric for the back but the backing is exactly the same size as the top. I usually allow a 2 inch extra allowance when I come to make my quilt sandwich so I’m panicking a bit!
The top is made up of 5 inch squares, 5 x 2.5 inch rectangles and 1.5 sashing and I plan to ‘stitch-in-the-ditch’ when I come to quilt it. I don’t want to cut anything off the top as it would spoil the pattern.
Should I just pin the quilt sandwich with ever pin I own and hope the backing doesn’t move or is there anything else I can do to keep it in place?
I will often enlarge my backing by using up the leftover blocks etc and make a strip the lenght of the quilt for the backing. Will do same for width. Better to have to much than too little.