White or cream material for background quilting
 

This has been going on for a while with me. When I check out the solid materials at fabric shops, they feel so thin. Don't like to use thin material for "backgrounds"on the front of quilts. What kind of white and cream solids do you experienced quilters use. Where do you get it?

kona cotton is a nice solid

I agree with Pamesue - KONA COTTON!!!! I use it for all my solids when it matters.

Moda Bella solids!

I prefer tone on tone for my creams and whites.

I get any white on white or off white on off white from Wal Mart or anywhere, I just feel it.I haven't run across any thin yet. I don't pay high prices for most of my fabrics. Quality is what I want.

I've found that when I buy thin fabric, such as at a local fabric but not quilting store where they sometimes offer it at $1 a yard--too good to pass up--if I wash it, and it shrinks down, it is now of good weight. For backgrounds, I love to use white-on-white or white-on-cream. I find that using a solid sucks the life out and makes things too flat for my taste.

I agree, I rarely use a solid of any color in my quilts. Good to know about the fabric shrinking down and making it a good weight. Now I think of all those priced great white on whites I have passed on . . . .

Kona cotton is very nice. I use it for background and top.

i use kona