Backing for Vintage Quilt
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Backing for Vintage Quilt
I'm almost through piecing a churn dash quilt top using 1930's prints. Now I've got to decide on the backing. I'm thinking I should stay with the vintage look and use a solid backing. All the quilts I have from my GGM (made many years ago) have solid colors on the back--no tone on tone and no small prints. Any ideas?
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I thinking about picking up a light color from the front--light green, light blue, etc. No yellow though because I seem to have a lot of yellow in the blocks.
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I don't know that I would agree. I have a quilt that my grandmother made with feedsacks and it does not have muslin on the back. Instead it also has a backing of feedsacks with an all over floral design on them.
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The only ones I've seen have been my GGM and they had a solid color (blue, red, etc), backing. I've also seen some when I've been "out and about" with the muslin backing but I've never seen one with a floral backing. BUT it makes sense if feedsacks were used for both front and back.
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I think traditionally it would be muslin but I usually put something different because the muslin shows everything and tends to be weaker. So a small 1930 print for me. I would consider a solid 19 30 fabric or muslin if hand quilting or wanting the quilting to show up.
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I think traditionally it would be muslin but I usually put something different because the muslin shows everything and tends to be weaker. So a small 1930 print for me. I would consider a solid 19 30 fabric or muslin if hand quilting or wanting the quilting to show up.
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