Never fails - lessons learned forever Teri

THERE IS HOPE!!!

I can cut ACROOS the backing, in the middle. Place a fabric (insert) that goes with your quilt top and backing between the 2 halves. If that looks too strange to you, cut across the backing is 3 places, do the same but using narrower insets.

I have done this one SO OFTEN! Or had fabric I really wanted to use, and it wasn't the right length.

REMEMEBER: quilter's secret :D YOU are the only one that will know those inserts were not part of the quilt plan!

Julie

I recently did a brown quilt (just tan and dark brown) put it in my mid-arm quilt frame and really whipped out the quilting. As I rolled the quilt (that left about 36" left to quilt) suddenly I saw that my quilt back was going to end about 18" short!!! I had pieces of the tan and dark brown that were each about 4" wide. I took the quilt loose from the frame (on the unquilted side) unrolled enough of the quilted portion to pull it down far enough to hang off. Then I sewed all of those 4" strips together put my sewing machine on my rolling sewing chair and sewed that extra piece to the quilt back - rolled the quilted part back on and reattached the quilt back. The whole point of the story is my customer thought it was wonderful. The quilt was 108" square. She puts the pieced back at the top - turns it down and tops it with pillows with dark brown cases. Sometimes a mistake turns out to be awsome!!

I've done that too. Hate it when things like that happen. Look on the bright side - it will probably only happen once! And your once is done!

Make a strip of the colors you used on the front from your scraps and you will be just fine. I love this look on the backs of quilts.

It was demanding back art with your label in it! Quilts do speak to us, you know.

Maybe a good place for the label?

make a row of blocks and add it to the center of the backing. will look great!!

^5!

Done it before too, but hopefully never again.

Cut the piece in 1/2 and add the strip through the center which will make it look like you meant to do it- Always keep them guessing