How do you piece your backing fabric?
03-02-2010, 06:36 AM
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I hate piecing my back and avoid doing it as much as I an. If I am making a big one I save up to buy wide fabric for my backings and if I am making a quilt for my family I use a flat sheet that has been washed a couple of times to avoid shrinking.
03-02-2010, 06:40 AM
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I'm with Maride. I try to use fatbacks for larger quilts. If I have to piece it, I use the tube method. I haven't tried sheets yet, but may consider it. I quilt by machine, so the tighter weave of the sheets shouldn't be a problem.
03-02-2010, 09:35 AM
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Do you have a preference whether the seams are vertical or horizontal? If I use the tube method with vertical seams for the quilt I'm currently doing it would leave very narrow strips along both sides. I was thinking of doing basically the same thing but with horizontal seams. What are your thoughts on this?
03-02-2010, 09:37 AM
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I do the same whether vertical or horizontal. I have done both depending on how much fabric I want to use. Works great either way.
Originally Posted by quiltsRfun
Do you have a preference whether the seams are vertical or horizontal? If I use the tube method with vertical seams for the quilt I'm currently doing it would leave very narrow strips along both sides. I was thinking of doing basically the same thing but with horizontal seams. What are your thoughts on this?
03-02-2010, 09:42 AM
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Thanks eveybody! As usual you all came thru with great thots and suggestions... Am gonna try the TUBE method (seems easy and will look good) and I Am GOING TO DO THE HORIZONTAL Flynn way.......(just because now it is bugging me that I can't do the -duh- MATH part) Wil let you know if I master it! Thanks again for all your help! BTQ
03-02-2010, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by weezie
I have done John Flynn's method, successfully. I had a piece of fabric that was a bit too long and a bit too narrow, so I cut it diagonally from top left corner to bottom right, slid the 2 cut pieces in opposite directions until I had the width I needed and still had enough length. I marked the 2 pieces, sewed them back together, starting and ending at the marks, cut off the end triangles, i.e., squared up and, voila, I had the rectangle the size I needed. This was for a queen sized quilt.
03-02-2010, 01:53 PM
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Originally Posted by weezie
I have done John Flynn's method, successfully. I had a piece of fabric that was a bit too long and a bit too narrow, so I cut it diagonally from top left corner to bottom right, slid the 2 cut pieces in opposite directions until I had the width I needed and still had enough length. I marked the 2 pieces, sewed them back together, starting and ending at the marks, cut off the end triangles, i.e., squared up and, voila, I had the rectangle the size I needed. This was for a queen sized quilt.
http://bsue.wordpress.com/2007/03/25...ng-directions/
Sounds much easier the way you did it!! What size was your fabric width?
03-02-2010, 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by borntoquilt
Has anybody successfully used the John Flynn formula for diagonally piecing a quilt back? I have studied the pictures in his tutorial and just can't seem to understand it. I think the web site is JohnFlynn.com loook for "Joan's trick". Hopefully someone can explain this to me. It is supposed to use less fabric... thanks in advance!
03-02-2010, 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by sewcrafty
Originally Posted by weezie
I have done John Flynn's method, successfully. I had a piece of fabric that was a bit too long and a bit too narrow, so I cut it diagonally from top left corner to bottom right, slid the 2 cut pieces in opposite directions until I had the width I needed and still had enough length. I marked the 2 pieces, sewed them back together, starting and ending at the marks, cut off the end triangles, i.e., squared up and, voila, I had the rectangle the size I needed. This was for a queen sized quilt.
http://bsue.wordpress.com/2007/03/25...ng-directions/
Sounds much easier the way you did it!! What size was your fabric width?
I think your best bet might be to use graph paper to determine what you need. Is this backing fabric that you already own? John Flynn's info. is where I got my instructions ... I printed a copy of them many years ago.
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