This is the fabric I used to back my dancing 9-patch! There is even enough left over to make a storage bag for the quilt! When I find a fabric I like that is on sale I (a really good sale...this was only 3.50 a yard after sale and coupons!) I usually buy 6-8 yards and add it to the backing basket.
This camping fabric came out of the same basket and will back a quilt going to the Ronald McDonald house.
Not sure where this one with the pink batik backed quilt will end up!
I also got some blocks put together for a Quilt of Valor. Last September guild members brought patriotic blocks to the meeting. I've had them on the wall, in a box, and pinned together since January and just didn't run them through the machine...finally they are a quilt top!
Maybe today I'll dig through the basket and find a backing for this one....
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Wow! You got so much accomplished! Yay!
Look at you cruisin' through the quilt tops. Doesn't that feel good?
BTW, I do the same thing with fabrics on sale, but I have been known to buy up to 9 yards if the price is right (sidewalk sale sometimes has $1-$2 a yard fabric) so I can back really big quilts if I should ever happen to make one. : )
Love the birds :-) and the QOV blocks are beautiful! Good inside stitching weather!
you are getting stuff done!!! I am poking along - I'm a snail.
Yay. So glad you are organizing. The only bad thing is that you have to do it regularly as the fairies sneak in and make a mess. Who messed up my room? Hugs.
The blocks for the Quilt of Valour look great! I'm afraid I'm not that organised with backings, most often they are the last thing I think about!!!! Not to nice that really hot and muggy weather, here we're still cold, hoping for an early Spring!!!!
I LOVE the birds..was thinking the instant I saw it how it would go perfectly for the raffle quilt!
ooh batik as a backing? that is gorgeous...hope it was on sale...
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