I usually buy my backs from www.Nixiechicks.com. The extra wide blender backs are $5.95 yrd/ so a queen quilt is just $18. I recently bought a royal blue baseball fabric for my nephew's twin quilt for $3.20 yd from her, it is royal blue with little baseball's all over it. She also had a baseball bat and ball fabric, I bought some of that for the front.

If I can find the wider widths I'll use it, otherwise I piece.

I ususally piece the backs, but have used wide backing. There are beautiful backing fabrics available now. :lol:

purplemem

I tried that website, but couldn't get anything. Can you confirm if it's all spelled correctly? Or, maybe it's just me. That happens too. :oops:

I try to make the back coordinate with the front. For some reason, I have a strong adversion to having a beautifully pieced front, and then seeing a back that is obviously just leftover fabric from other projects put together on it. Especially on lap or wheelchair quilts where either side could be seen at any given time. (no problem if it'll be on a bed) It just makes me squirm. :lol: :lol:

Here's a picture of the front of a quilt I made, and a picture of the center of the back. The weird object in the corner is actually supposed to be a sheep, since the soldier this was for is a member of the Blacksheep Squadron and had lost a leg in Iraq. Making a sheep was HARD! My first attempts looked like buffalos instead of sheep. And, I had to do them because I accidentally cut a nick in the back after piecing the borders on it. So, yep, it's a boo-boo fix in sheep's clothing. :lol:

I've done both, but, alas, I'm lazy :lol: and would rather just put it together without a seam

Thanks for everyones responses.
I might try piecing my next back with more then just panels.

Happy quilting,
G

I just finished a disappearing 9patch quilt for my grandson with all sports squares on the front. I was able to find a sports print in flannel for the back. I did the center seam. It should be nice and warm.

I've done a variety of backing methods, including making a too-narrow piece wider by cutting it into 2 triangles and sliding them up/down until I had the width I needed and then sewing the 2 triangles back together (using a great tip with illustrations from John Flynn). On the quilt that I'm piecing now and am almost finished, there are no straight seams. Everything is curved and putting this quilt top together was a nightmare and I'm convinced that a pieced back would cause me even more problems so I've just ordered 3 yds. of 108" wide backing from Fabric Depot. I haven't received it yet, but it looks good on my computer screen and the price is reasonable.

I was also taught that if you piece the backing by sewing two lengths together that the seam should run side to side on the quilt so the quilt hanging over the edge does not constantly put weight on the seam down the middle.