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Thank you! I'll be hand quilting it so I'll leave at the most 3" all around the sides.
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Go to John Flynn's site. He has a neat way to make this all work out for you. http://bsue.wordpress.com/2007/03/25...ng-directions/
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That is pretty slick. I would never have thought about it, but it should work!
Originally Posted by Farmer Girl
Go to John Flynn's site. He has a neat way to make this all work out for you. http://bsue.wordpress.com/2007/03/25...ng-directions/
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Originally Posted by Farmer Girl
Go to John Flynn's site. He has a neat way to make this all work out for you. http://bsue.wordpress.com/2007/03/25...ng-directions/
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If you have some fabric left from the quilt top, now would be your chance to add some of that in the backing. If you decide to go with that option, you could put it at one end, and use that as a turn back on the bed, or perhaps you could cut what you have in half, horizontally, and add a piano key strip through the middle. (Piano key strip is made of short lengths of all your fabrics, sewn together a la piano keys. Repeat the fabrics for as long as you need the strip to be).
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I would take another fabric and split the back in the middle, cross wize, and sew a strip in to make it long enough. Folks will think you are so creative. Or a strip of pieced blocks..... Make it appear to be part of the back.
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I sometimes don't have enough backing material so what I like to do (and it adds interest to the back) is insert another color, pattern, or whatever may coordinate with the front and back. If the backing is too short, I cut towards the bottom, maybe leaving a 12" piece or less depending on how big the quilt is, and add a strip of the coordinating fabric wide enough to make the backing long enough. Just be sure to leave enough at the bottom of the original fabric so you can see the insert. You can do the same thing if the backing material is not wide enough. I posted a D9P in the Pictures section that I recently finished that I inserted a strip of the front D9P fabric to the back because my backing material was not long enough. Modern style quilts are usually pieced like this. There are some great examples of this on Flickr.
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Originally Posted by Lacelady
If you have some fabric left from the quilt top, now would be your chance to add some of that in the backing. If you decide to go with that option, you could put it at one end, and use that as a turn back on the bed, or perhaps you could cut what you have in half, horizontally, and add a piano key strip through the middle. (Piano key strip is made of short lengths of all your fabrics, sewn together a la piano keys. Repeat the fabrics for as long as you need the strip to be).
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