wishfulthinking

Hi everyone. I removed the selveges from my backing fabric only to find that I now have only 40 inches of useable fabric. My quilt is 79 X 79. How should I piece my backing? Thanks for your help!

justflyingin

How much fabric do you have?

wishfulthinking

Oh, I have lots of the fabric, seven yards I think.

quiltingcandy

If you have 7 yards of fabric - that is 252 inches long. I would probably make 3 pieces 84 in. long then cut those pieces to be 29 or 30 in. wide. Using the 29 in. would would come out with a piece that is about 85.5 in. by 84 - that will give you room all the way around the quilt.

wishfulthinking

Thats kinda what I thought. More trouble than I wanted to go to, but I can't think of a better way. Thank you!

cindi

You could try John Flynn's method of diagonal backing. I've used it several times and have saved lots of money on yardage using it!
http://www.flynnquilt.com/media/uplo...onalpb1103.pdf

luvspaper

I would cut it in half based on the # of yds you bought and then piece a horizontal piecing that would make up 6-12 inches in width by 69+ 12 inches. Sew 39inches by 3 1/2 yards to the horizontal strip and then to the other 3 1/2 yards (actually you just need it to be about 79+12 inches = 91 inches or a little more than 2 1/2 yards each) so that the pieced part is in the middle of the backing. Then quilt as normal.

I do this often with my throw quilts that are around 80 inches on the long side.....works like a charm and I don't have to piece the top part or the bottom. And it looks like I did it on purpose and brings the front around to the back!

Gay

I would cut into the 84" lengths and sew the three pieces together. Fold in half lengthwise,with the seams together, and measure about 43-45" from the fold, and cut off the extra.

FabStripper

You can cut two strips that are longer then the length of your quilt and put a stripe of a fabric that is in the quilt top between those two strips. That will look neat. I seen others do it this way.

Jingle

This sounds good to me. I have been using larger pieces of fabrics for backing too. Ones I don't want to use for the front.