Sheets for quilt backing
11-21-2025, 12:27 PM
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Sheets for quilt backing
I'm looking for sheet backing for a king size quilt. I'm planning to quilt it row-by-row and will need two flat king size sheets. I'm wondering if anyone has a favorite sheet on Amazon that you use for quilt backing. It would help me from my search. I can input 100% cotton and it still comes up with microfiber. I accidentally bought a couple and didn't discover it until I had one cut up and tried to sandwich it. Ugh!
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
11-21-2025, 07:23 PM
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California Design Den has 100% cotton sheets and I think the percale would be good for backing. I have a set of the 400 thread count sateen and the unspecified thread count percale for the guest bed and they're both good quality. I have used sateen for backing but like percale better.
11-22-2025, 04:19 PM
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My favourite quilt is made with a Laura Ashley 100% cotton sheet as backing, purchased on Amazon.
I don’t know if it’s quilt-police approved, but it’s soft and yummy and was just as easy to piece/quilt as quilting cotton.
It’s pricey, but it’s very difficult to find 100% cotton bedclothes these days.
I don’t know if it’s quilt-police approved, but it’s soft and yummy and was just as easy to piece/quilt as quilting cotton.
It’s pricey, but it’s very difficult to find 100% cotton bedclothes these days.
11-23-2025, 03:54 AM
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the 'not for backing' goes back to our handquilting days, good quilting cotton has 60-75 threads per inch, bedsheets start at 250-300 per inch and go up to 1000 threads per inch. Very hard to hand quilt through...my first quilt had a sheet back 
With machine quilting I don't think it matters at all anymore, but the old 'rules' get rrepeated.
and cotton percale is a type of weave that made it so sheets didn't need to be pressed if that was your thing, but now it doesn't necessarily mean 100% cotton, some, instead of a special weave will inclue man-made fabrics to keep them unwrinklie. Read labels!
With machine quilting I don't think it matters at all anymore, but the old 'rules' get rrepeated.
and cotton percale is a type of weave that made it so sheets didn't need to be pressed if that was your thing, but now it doesn't necessarily mean 100% cotton, some, instead of a special weave will inclue man-made fabrics to keep them unwrinklie. Read labels!
