Need Help With Backing Fabric
 

Here are pics of my Crown Royal quilt top. I want to purchase wide quilt backing and am looking for color suggestions. Also, since the top is flannel would it be better to use cotton instead of flannel backing so it won't be quite so heavy. That's what I am thinking. Please help me decide.
Thanks, Nancy

flannel? is that real Crown Royal bags or purchased fabric? Just wondering. I'm making blocks with Nu-suede and think I will have to put fusible interfacing on the back of them. I would think cotton backing would work well with your quilt. maybe a print since you have dark and light areas to quilt in. Great quilt!!!

Marshall's Dry Goods has very good prices and excellent customer service, or at least that's been my experience. Great looking top.

I agree try Marshall's. Beautiful quilt!!!!!

Flannel back will add weight but it will be nice and warm. Thousands of bolts has many wide backs to choose from

http://www.thousandsofbolts.com/inde...category_ID=26

so does Hancocks of Paducah (more expensive)
http://www.hancocks-paducah.com/Item...ng-Sale--m-639

Edited to add that your quilt came out very pretty.

Did you empty ALL those bottles????? It is beautiful. I would use cotton backing in a purple and white print..... Hugs

Personally, I'd go with cotton because of the weight, but if you need further flannel resources I have discovered a site called Flannel World (which makes me giggle, a bit). I haven't ordered from them yet, so I cannot attest to their serveice etc, but they have a good selection!

Alison

Depends on how heavy you want it to be.

Check with connectingthreads.com 102 wide

Yes it is real bags, and I had a bunch that we had indeed emptied ourselves over a span of a number of years. However, once I determined what pattern I wanted to use I bought some in bulk off ebay to supplement my collection.

I love all the responses, but what color of backing do you think I should use?

That is gorgeous. I love it. I would use a cotton backing, but as others have said, if you want extra warmth, use the flannel. Whatever you choose, I,m sure it will be awesome>

cream color? If you want wide backing there is a member of the qb that sells wide backing. Just saying... :)

Your quilt top is BEAUTIFUL.

fabric.com has a wide variety of wide backing fabrics- regular cottons and flannels- and free shipping at the $35 point. I've been buying almost all of my backings from them for over 10 years...great choices- good prices- good customer service.

http://www.fabric.com/ProductDetail....1-80a9d5a5fb64

I like this purple for the back. I like to be able to match top and bottom threads and still be able to hide as many of my flubs as possible!

I would suggest a purple and white floral that has green leaves in it and back it with that. Love, love, love this quilt.

Crown Royal gold for the back! Maybe with bits of purple and white/cream.

This is one of the better CR bag quilts I've ever seen; way to go!:thumbup:

I'd go with a gold backing. (OK, creamy-beige if youcan't get gold.)

Personally, I would go with something closer to the light color in the quilt. If you wanted to go with flannel, could you use a lightweight/thinner batting?

I like for my backing to be a surprise, something that you would not expect when looking at the top. I would use some type of a small print in a color you would not expect. Whether or not to use cotton or flannel depends on how heavy a quilt you want and like. You probably have a larger choice of material in cotton. The quilt is beautiful.

I like the way you did the quilt

I didn't notice if anyone mentioned the WideBacks site. When I started reading thought your question was about color. My advice is pick a color to match or blend with whatever color you want to quilt it in. Hides any boo boos.
I'm expecting a customer to bring me crown royal bags for a quilt he wants. I love your choice of design.
Happy Stitching

I vote for cotton.

Gorgeous quilt!!!!

Gee, that's 2 in one week that I have seen. Special to me as I plan to make one for my brother. All the suggestions re backing is helpful to me too. Never knew other people also saw " a quilt" with the bags. I would like to find a way to use the whole front of the bag with the gold stitiching. Have too many things on go right now to do a design anyway. good luck with backing.

Great quilt.

Joanne's.com and Nancy's Notions have nice wide backings at a reasonable price. I would also go with a cotton in blue and white print.

Beautiful top! No suggestions about the back except a not too tiny purple and white print.

Lovely quilt top! I'd look at some prints that have varying shades of purples and maybe small amounts of white -- depending on your taste, that could be florals, a nice multi woven plaid, multi colored circles, or even an off white plain....either cotton or flannel would be good, depending on how you intend to use the quilt after its done.

Can't help with your question but I love your quilt and colors.

Lovely quilt. The colors are striking. Personally, I would use flannel for the backing

I would think a lavender would be very nice for this.

great quilt. If you pre-wash fabric, it doesn't really matter what combos you use -- flannel, cotton, whatever. But if you didn't pre-wash, I'd suggest you pick a flannel in a similar weight/thread count to the top. this way it all shrinks together later on. Good luck.

I love your pattern, is this your own design? or did you find this pattern somewhere. I have loads of purple, no crown royals fabric, just regular cotton, and would love to do some of my purples in this design. Would you share the pattern please? That turned out so pretty.

It's a beautiful top, but I didn't know what Crown Royal was. I had to google Crown Royal bags and then to find out what went in them. ;)

Great quilt! Love the pattern!

There is a youtube video that I worked from. It is friendship star pattern so the crown royal in the center is 3 3/4" and the 8 blocks surrounding the crown royal (to make the one block) are hst's that finished at 3 3/4". The border is 3" of crown royal bags and then another pleated border. The flannel was a little more difficult to work with.

Purple/cream backing would look nice.

Oh man your so clever! This is really neat. A little harder to quilt through, but I love flannel back quilts. Cozy and warm, plus it doesn't slip around on the bed. A lavender colour backing would be really pretty on this very pretty quilt.