Having been given a jelly roll and a quilting book for Christmas 2010, there is no excuse not to get on with quiltmaking.

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Tuesday 13 November 2012

Festive Mystery - Backing

I made my decision on the backing fabric for the Festive Mystery.  It was between a William Morris style dark print, and white, and - despite overwhelming opinion (thank you all) to the contrary - I decided on the white.  The dark was just too gloomy to compliment the bright Christmas design.

Then I laid out the fabric, and realised that I hadn't quite enough. Bum.

However, I'm in good company, QuiltSue didn't have quite enough backing for her quilt either, and what did she do?  She banged on about not being able to do a pieced backing made a wonderful job of piecing a backing, cleverly incorporating the fabrics from the front design. Utterly brilliant!

Being in such good company cheered me up no end, and I had a lightbulb moment - I thought I'd use half-and-half white and patterned fabrics in a checkerboard design.

I did some sums and now have a whole heap of 8¾" squares ready to press & piece.

Thank you, Sue, wouldn't have thought of it without you!

6 comments:

  1. Your quilting is going to look fabulous!

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    1. Thank you, Donna, you have great faith in me! We shall see how it turns out!

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  2. Good for you! Looking forward to seeing the results!

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  3. Happy to have been of assistance. I think your backing is going to work really well and will effectively give you two quilts for the price of one.

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    1. Without liking to sound soppy, you don't realise how inspirational you have been over the last couple of years.

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