Yes. I also enjoy the back of the quilt.
I machine (domestic) quilt. I think the stitches create their own design and I enjoy the art on the back of the quilt when it is finished.

I would use the purple. I have quilted my last two projects ( a tree skirt and a quilt) with variegated thread. I was really happy with the results. If you have some scraps, you might just try a few test runs and see what you like best. You might even use white in the bobbin and purple on top. Let us know what you decide. The quilt in your avatar is beautiful! Sorry! I just read the post that said you were hand quilting! I like to hand quilt with white thread. I think it is just more traditional since at one time all most ladies had was white, gray, or black thread. I think you should use the one that you like best. And I think the purple would look great! As another lady posted, it's the quilt top you see! I wouldn't worry about the back. And besides purple and white look great together anyway!

I use what looks good on the front and don't worry about the back. You will have a quilted design on the back when you are done. I ususally hand quilt but occasionally will machine quilt.

Me too!

I thinnk the purple would make the front look awesome! Added bonus-a quilt on the back!

I'm doing one with red thread on top and the backing is a white on natural print with white bobbin thread.

Most of the backing looks very good, but I learned a lesson with this one - to clean out the bobbin area extra well before starting.

The machine was acting up and throwing tiny red loops here and there on the bobbin side of the quilt. That's not normal for that machine, and I should have investigated but I didn't. I just kept adjusting tensions, thinking I wasn't balanced well enough.

Finally, I removed the needle plate and there was a blanket of lint around the feed dogs, even though I had been careful to brush out and blow out from underneath every time I changed the bobbin. Once I got that lint out of there, she settled right down and didn't give me a single hiccup for the rest of the quilt.

I'm hoping that laundering will pull out the worst of the red "pokies" on the back side.

I'm with Jan as I'm a hand quilter also!!!

What you *could* do is use the lighter pink as the thread, so it shows but "not too much".

I have done darker thread in my earlier days of quilting and it did not turn out as spectacular as I planned. If you're fairly good at quilting, the dark would work. But it WILL show, KWIM?

Match the front, and let it show on the back! Never mind what someone else's mama said! As long as you like it! If you are not sure about liking it, do some basting stitches both ways, just enough to see the colors on both sides.

I love to see the quilting on the back, and also love when it's different colors so the quilting really stands out. I follow a blog of a LAQ who frequently uses color (see the link below). It's machine quilting, but if you look at the June 18 entry, you can see an example. I say you shouldn't worry about the color of the fabric on the backing.

http://greenfairyquilts.blogspot.com...1_archive.html