I'm in the process of putting together a quilt with a white-on-white background and a Tula Pink fabric. It's the MSQC Wedge Diamond pattern and it has fairly large areas of the white background fabric, which is something that I've never done before. All of my other quilts have had darker colored backgrounds or very small areas of white, so I never ran into this problem.
The problem is that no matter what backing fabric I sandwich a block with, when I hold it up to the light, I get horrible show-through. I've got a whole roll of Quilter's Dream request batting, which is pretty thin, but I tried it with two layers also.
The other day I bought four yards of fabric for the backing - white background with a fine but not very dense vine-y, leafy design, that I was sure wouldn't show through. Well, guess what? It sure does!
This morning I found two yards each of some fabric in my stash that I got at Hobby Lobby a few years ago. Different prints, but same line, so the same colorway. They're also much darker that the one that I just bought, with very bold prints, but the lime green and the aqua go much better with the Tula fabric than the almost kelly green of the leaf fabric.
I've pieced different fabrics for backings before, so I was thinking of just sewing these two prints together for the back.
I'm making this quilt for me, so I have more lee-way than if I was giving it away, but I would like a solution to the show-through fabric (this is why I've stayed away from quilts with a lot of white. That, and I tend to spill stuff...) I can't afford to buy different batting right now, and like I said, I have a ton of the Request.
I don't want to back it with solid white; I just finished a quilt with Kaffe Fassett fabric that I backed with white and while I love the quilt, I'm not fond of that solid white back. I thought about layering the top with some thin muslin, or since I get show-through no matter what fabric I use, maybe just back it with the fabric that I like the best, suck it up, and learn to live with the show-through. And vow to never, ever make another quilt with such large areas of white fabric again.
What say you? Any ideas?