Colors of Palolo Quilt

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02-13-2014, 05:50 PM

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Jackie R

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I love your quilt - especially that really interesting and beautiful backing. It looks like palm tree leaves to me - very apropos.

By the way, how did you do that backing? Thanks.

02-13-2014, 05:51 PM

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joyce888

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Your right it's gorgeous on BOTH sides!

02-13-2014, 07:46 PM

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JudeWill

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The front is pretty, but the back is spectacular!

02-13-2014, 08:06 PM

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beatys9

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Well, in truth, I planned to do the backing out of the orange batik but I only had 2 yards of it. I thought about boarders in the other scraps but thought it would look choppy as I didn't have yardage of any of them so I just started slicing into the 2 yard piece, adding different pieces of some of the fabric from the front that I had left over. What I thought would be simple actually turned out to be much more difficult than I expected as I kept ending up with ever changing weird shapes - not a rectangle. Eventually when it was large enough, I cut it down to the backing size. I will do it again as I loved the result, but I may try to plan it a little this time so I don't drive myself mad.

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Originally Posted by Jackie R

I love your quilt - especially that really interesting and beautiful backing. It looks like palm tree leaves to me - very apropos.

By the way, how did you do that backing? Thanks.