It’s a nice neutral color that blends well with a lot of quilting cottons. I really love items sewn with linen and I almost exclusively use Robert Kaufman Essex in Flax, a cotton/linen blend that is really nice to quilt with and is machine washable. I alternated a solid block with an hourglass block, because this entire quilt is done in linen and I thought an hourglass block all the way through the quilt might be too heavy with that many seams. This design is an hourglass quilt, which uses my favorite half square triangle blocks. I finished this quilt before Christmas but didn’t want to post it because it was a Christmas gift. I hope you all had a great holiday – I’m finally getting everything back to normal around here and can’t wait to get back to my sewing machine. Do you have a favorite method of piecing a quilt back? I hope these instructions make sense and that they are helpful. Use a walking foot if you can to sew the seam – it will move the fabric along better, so that it is even.So make your sewing line ½” away from the selvedge. Make a big enough seam so that you can do this. Cut the selvedges off before you press the seam open – they are tighter and have less give than the fabric itself and can cause a pucker sometimes.Now just trim the length to the size you want. Also, this method only works on quilt tops which are under 80″ in length. This method actually works well for certain directional fabrics, because folding the fabric over on itself lines up the pattern in the same direction. The example below doesn’t include overages – it’s just a example.Īlso, I’ve recommended this phone app before and I use it all the time – it calculates how much yardage you will need for your backing. So remember to allow for those in your calculations. Also, if you want an overage on your quilt back, making it a bit larger than your quilt top, adjust accordingly – I always allow a couple inches all the way around the quilt for an overage. Keep in mind when you calculate dimensions for your quilt back, you have to take into account that although fabric width (WOF) is about 42 – 43″, you have to subtract the selvedges and you need to figure in ½” seams in your allowances. If you’re more of an advanced quilter, you won’t need such detailed instructions. I get a lot of quilting questions from beginner quilters, so I am going to diagram this method out in a really basic way (I hope). You then cut off the little fold line and open the fabric up and you’ve got a quilt back. Instead of cutting two separate pieces of fabric and sewing them together, you cut one long piece, fold it together and then sew right down one side. I can give you a method to make it a little easier. So, unless it’s a baby quilt, you almost always have to piece a quilt back. You can even use 108″ wideback fabric, and not have to cut anything – but the fabric choices for those are limited. There are many, many ways to make a quilt back. I just hate calculating the dimensions, cutting the pieces and then sewing them together. The only part of making a quilt that I do not enjoy is sewing the quilt back.
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