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dsilas 02-09-2021 09:49 AM

Wide Backing
 
What do you do with left over wide backing fabric?

QuiltE 02-09-2021 09:53 AM

The same as any other extra fabric I have ..... add it to my stash, for another quilt project.

dunster 02-09-2021 10:27 AM

Same as QuiltE. Often the trimmings are used as binding. The wide backs I've been buying are the same good quality as the rest of my stash.

QuiltE 02-09-2021 10:33 AM


Originally Posted by dunster (Post 8459615)
Same as QuiltE. Often the trimmings are used as binding. The wide backs I've been buying are the same good quality as the rest of my stash.

Exactly ..... and surprisingly, the widebacks often work out to a lower price than the regular widths when you compare it on the square foot/inch basis.

Onebyone 02-09-2021 11:12 AM

I will buy wide backing to use as yardage when it's on sale. I make extra long jelly roll strips.

Karamarie 02-09-2021 01:21 PM

It goes right along with any other fabric left over from making a quilt - into the stash.https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/boy.gif

Rff1010 02-09-2021 01:27 PM

Consider it for binding. The long strips mean less joins.

Panchita 02-09-2021 02:18 PM

Stash it! That there is useful fabric https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images...es/biggrin.png

Snooze2978 02-10-2021 06:16 AM

If there are only scraps/strips of the backing fabric left I put it in my scrap bin for oversized pieces. If less, then they go into whatever bin is the closest to the smallest width. Either way it gets used up in another quilt. Even the cutoffs of batting if wide enough will get attached to other strips of leftover batting until it becomes large enough to be used in another project. Sometimes I'll use the leftover batting if large enough for embroidered quilt blocks. Also those really small pieces I use to clean my rails on my quilt frame using alcohol.

Jingle 02-10-2021 05:11 PM

I use it however I can. I love wide backing. I buy good quality.


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