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I shop the sale fabrics at a quilt shop. You can usually get them 50% off with 1 yard min purchase. Good quality fabric for a reasonable price. I use these fabrics for backs. As long as they don't clash with the front I'm fine with it. I often find beautiful prints on sale that I would hate to cut up and can showcase them on the back. I piece them with one seam that you can hardly notice.
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if I have enough leftovers from piecing the top, I use those pieces. I really love to make the back a surprise by using something totally uncoordinating.
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Sometimes I'll buy a backing to go with the quilt I'm making if I find one that pops out at me at the time. Other times I'll use all the scraps and/or extra blocks to the back. A good quality muslin works for me too. My local fabric store has a sateen backing that comes in a few colors that's either 108 or 118 wide. It has such a nice feel to it too.
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If I have enough fabric I like the backing to match the binding. But right now I am trying hard to use what I have, so will be putting together a back for the current project with coordinating fabrics.
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Sometimes I find fabric I love and use that for the back, and coordinate the front. Such as these two baby quilts I made.
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Originally Posted by tessagin
(Post 7260402)
I just try to coordinate the backing with the top. Sometimes I buy more fabric if I don't have what I want from my stash. That is always a scary event. Going to the fabric store for a yard of fabric is like going to the grocery store for a gallon of milk. Often a gallon of milk can run $75.00. Yard of fabric can run upwards as much.
But as for my answer: I always use a patterned fabric that coordinates somewhat with the front to hide quilting flaws. Recently though I have been using some from my stash and adding to them from the local craft store that sells flat folds (end of bolts) marked down to $6 per yard. I've been putting 4 interesting fabrics together joined in the middle going down and across so that each quadrant has a different fabric. I figure if I have to make seams anyway I might as well have it look unexpected and plan for it. I have a way of marking the exact center on the backing and knowing where that is to position the front perfectly centered. I love the look on someone's face when they realize the back is interesting as well as the front. |
I don't usually start thinking about the back until I'm at least halfway through with the top, and I prefer it to match or compliment the top.
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Originally Posted by Onebyone
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I like a backing that says WOW what beautiful fabric! My backing fabric usually cost more then the fabric for the pieced top as I use from my stash for that. It makes me sad to see a quilt top made with wonderful fabrics and then have a muslin or plain backing.
I do the same. I want the back to be as pretty as the front. It isn't unusual to spend more for that fabric. I haven't tried the wide backing fabrics, so I with the fabric of my choice, I sew two vertical seams, with the middle panel being wider than the two on either side. Just like the way it looks. |
I hand quilt, so my backings are usually a solid color fabric to show off the quilting. I made the "mistake" one time of putting a great print fabric on the back, but couldn't see any of the quilting :(
I do coordinate it w/ the front and binding. |
I tend to coordinate the backing fabric with the quilt top. I keep telling myself that I should be adventuresome and use some of the quilt top blocks on the back or do patches of fabric, however, my when I go to do something like that my brain says "no way". One of these days though, I just might let out my wilder side.
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