Ok ladies, I'm making a Twister quilt for my mom for Christmas-birthday-mothers day (which ever day it gets done in time for). I'm using the fabric shown here. I got the two layer cakes to make it while on a trip to Shipshawana this week.

I need help finding a fabric or two to use for the back ground and borders. I am unable to get anymore of the fabric that the layer cakes are made of (unless you can find it for m dirt cheap).

Thanks in advance.

I think you could match up one of the blues or the cream for the background & borders. Any print that goes with these would do...or a tone on tone would be wonderful!!

Thanks. I so hate picking farbic out. It's the one part I really really hate about quilting.

What's the name of the layer cake collection?

What pattern are you planning to make? Is hard for me to picture what you are going to make with all the movement in the fabric.

I'd go with cream and red, or cream and the tealy-blue.

It is Moda's Collection for a Cause Hope.

Opps hit the send too soon. Sorry

This is the pattern I'm using. I did this one earlier this month. I'm looking for a fabric to use in place of the black back ground in this one and the border farbic.

I think picking the darker colors with a thin sash of cream would be my choice.

Anything from a cream to a light tan.

Anytime I see red in fabric I say...go with red. But as MadQuilter said...cream and red would look nice too.

I am really partial to the colors red and blue and then either white or cream to go with it.

I'm wondering how the stripe in your fabric will work into this quilt - could be really cool or could distract. I'll be watching!!!1 Please post photo when you are done! :lol:

I would use a tone-on-tone dark fabric for the background, matching any of the darkest colors in your layer cake fabrics. (Dark fabrics make other colors stand out.)

Then I'd do a double border, the innermost being very light in color (tone-on-tone, probably cream) and very thin (1/4" - 1/2" finished). (Actually, because this border will be so thin, you can use a solid color instead of tone-on-tone.)

The second border would be relatively wide and made from a tone-on-tone fabric of your (or your mother's) favorite medium color that appears in the layer cake fabrics. For example, you might choose either a red or a turquoise or a tan. All would be beautiful.

For binding, you could repeat any of these colors.

Hope this helps! (Wish I could go fabric shopping with you. It's my favorite part of quilting!)

I've got this same collection of fabric, I found a nice cream with little flowers on it, its Splendor by Jason ventor, In the Beginning fabrics. I've used it for the back ground and the backing.