I just used white fleece for the backing of a lap quilt. The top is burgandy, mauve and white. I used mauve thread in top and bottom machine decorative stitch,just stitched around blocks, but ther bsack looks really pretty. ( except for one spot where the thread sort of jumbled up) Right in the middle, and not too big, but it does show. I can't pick it out either. But I still love the color pattern on the white!

Hi, I used red thread on a white backing. It looks great, so, go ahead.

I am pressing forward using the purple thread. We'll see if it is a diaster or a designer! Thanks for all of your input. I just really wasn't sure about this one.

have fun w/ your project!! I will pick the backing fabric to blend w/ whatever color thread i pick to quilt w/. Although, i will admit that i got "skeered" on my next project - i will be quilting in just a natural color thread, but toyed w/ putting a medium country blue fabric on the back.

But this is for my mom and very special quilt (& I want it perfect), so i went ahead and put a pretty tone on tone white floral on the back - it'll be pretty, just not dramatic :roll: :-D

I like to use a light cream on a white backing. It gives just a bit more depth to the quilting lines.

I think purple on the back would be GORGEOUS!!

On my daughter's quilt, the LAQ used pink for the quilting on a ivory backing & it looked awesome!

I love to look at the back of hand quilted quilts. I think the purple would look good!

I have done it both ways. I used a white backing one time and a varigated thread to quilt both top and bottom. It looked awesome...the quilting really stood out and other ladies in our group thought the quilt could be reversable because of it.

The last quilt that I had quilter on a longarm quilter we used a
dakr thread. This shows the quilting patern very nice on the back white linning. I like it some maynot.