When planning your backing design......
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When planning your backing design......
Do you consider how the quilting will affect the design on the backing?
I have only made 5 quilts with creatively pieced backings, and they have turned out fine. Just wondering what you all do.
My current quilt will be stitched in the ditch (outer square edge of each D9P block), but I have a strip on the back I want to do which includes 3 of the remaining blocks. Of course it is impossible to line front and back up perfectly for the stitching to hit the back in the exact same spot. Do you worry about this at all?
I have only made 5 quilts with creatively pieced backings, and they have turned out fine. Just wondering what you all do.
My current quilt will be stitched in the ditch (outer square edge of each D9P block), but I have a strip on the back I want to do which includes 3 of the remaining blocks. Of course it is impossible to line front and back up perfectly for the stitching to hit the back in the exact same spot. Do you worry about this at all?
Last edited by LavenderBlue; 10-24-2012 at 01:17 PM.
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I love to piece backs. i don't usually stitch in the ditch when I do. i am one of those "fussies" and would be upset if the back and front didn't match up in that case. i usually have a swirly all over done when I piece the back if the project if very big. But my friend say "it is the back"
#7
I don't worry about the back either. Whatever it is, it is. I put a striped fabric on the back of a quilt for a friend...at her request. My SID from the front didn't match up at all. Neither of us cared.
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I've never attempted a specially pieced backing. I usually am just more conscientious of the color of thread and the quilting pattern. If I were going to do something special for the back of a quilt I would probably appliqué something so I could have control over placement and stitching.
#9
I do because 99% of the time I bring the backing fabric around the front as a final border for the whole quilt. Sometimes I make a wide border and other times a narrow one. So the backing fabric has to look good with the front of my quilt.
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