I Just LOVE 108" Wide
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I Just LOVE 108" Wide
This arrived today. It's the backing for my next Boxed Squares quilt. At $21.98 a yard, that works out to about $8.79 a yard if it were the regular 44 inches wide. It will be plenty for my backing, and there will be some leftover to be on the front of a future project.
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That is gorgeous fabric. Right now I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to piece the back of a quilt that's about 120"x108" in size, so the back will have to be about 128x116. Even wide fabric wouldn't quite do it. This is probably my least favorite part of making a quilt - figuring out how to piece a back from the fabric I have left from the front.
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I just came from our lqs and choosing fabrics for a new project, where I was told the backing fabric I had chosen for the quilt top (I didn't realize it was a wide backing, I just liked the fabric) is more loosely woven than the fabrics which are not wide backing fabrics. The sales lady discouraged me from mixing that particular fabric in my piecing of the top because it would wear faster than all the other fabrics in the top. I took her advice, put that bolt back and made another selection. I never knew that backing fabrics are more loosely woven. She said it's to make handquilting easier. Always learning....So you may want to carefully check yours out.
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I just came from our lqs and choosing fabrics for a new project, where I was told the backing fabric I had chosen for the quilt top (I didn't realize it was a wide backing, I just liked the fabric) is more loosely woven than the fabrics which are not wide backing fabrics. The sales lady discouraged me from mixing that particular fabric in my piecing of the top because it would wear faster than all the other fabrics in the top. I took her advice, put that bolt back and made another selection. I never knew that backing fabrics are more loosely woven. She said it's to make handquilting easier. Always learning....So you may want to carefully check yours out.
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I purchased the wide backing against a lqs suggestion. Took it home and washed it. I did buy a little extra because I always allow for shrinkage. Turned out just fine. I paid about $8-9 a yard for it. She wanted me to purchase a different brand that was about $2-3 more. Saw her a few weeks later and she had the audacity to say "It probably didn't turn out very nice." Haven't been back since and won't go back. I did ask her if it wasn't of good quality then why have it in the store?" You can have quality fabrics and then better quality fabrics. If you're going to have inadequate fabric, you shouldn't be in business.
I just came from our lqs and choosing fabrics for a new project, where I was told the backing fabric I had chosen for the quilt top (I didn't realize it was a wide backing, I just liked the fabric) is more loosely woven than the fabrics which are not wide backing fabrics. The sales lady discouraged me from mixing that particular fabric in my piecing of the top because it would wear faster than all the other fabrics in the top. I took her advice, put that bolt back and made another selection. I never knew that backing fabrics are more loosely woven. She said it's to make handquilting easier. Always learning....So you may want to carefully check yours out.
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