New quilter!

[ucarrieme]

I'm new to quilting and want to make fun back for a small practice quilt I'm making. Does anyone use scraps on the back that match the front?

[brinasmemaw]

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Yes, I almost always make a pieced backing, using the leftovers from the front. I love the look of a pieced back.

[JCY]

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I rarely make a pieced back. I prefer to use one fabric. But many quilters now are making pieced backing, even with fabrics that aren't left over from the front. There are no quilt police.

[stationarymom]

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Hello and welcome to the forum from Massachusetts.

[katier825]

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I actually prefer to use a pieced back! I rarely use a single fabric on back anymore. Here is a post I started on another board a few years ago with some pics to give you ideas.

Show off you backside! Quilt backs that is!

[Bubby]

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Welcome to the forum from Missouri. Many of us use pieced backs....they add something special to a quilt I think.

[Mary Ann]

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I love to create a simple design for the back using leftover fabric (if I have any) It is an opportunity to design a little something on your own.

[Snip Snip]

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When my quilt backing isn't quite wide enough, I like to use fabric from the front to make a piece to go down the center, or off to one side. I just split the backing and add the extra blocks in that way.

[Preeti]

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There is a free class on Craftsy.com - Creative quilt Backs with Elizabeth Hartmann.
I highly recommend it.

[blc]

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Welcome from Dallas, Tx.

I do not use a pieced backing because my machine doesn't handle seams on the top and the bottom very well. If you are paying someone to quilt for you then check with them. Some quilters don't do it either. If you are doing your own quilting and want to do it go for it! There is no right or wrong way.

[giig21]

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I'm new to quilting and want to make fun back for a small practice quilt I'm making. Does anyone use scraps on the back that match the front?

Hi and welcome to the BEST forum ever. Yes you can. It really gives a quilt that extra kick. We usually end up with leftover fabric and at times full blocks. They cab be all pieced together or scattered on the backing.
It's been said before ,there is no quilt police and this is your quilt.

[surfergirl]

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I love doing two sided quilts, it uses up all those ufos. Please see previous thread A faster way to get quilts done

[Deegles]

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A while back a took a quilt to be quilted to the lady with the longarm in town. She is an old fashioned quilter for lack of a better term. We were talking about the plans for the quilt to be quilted and I told her I was going to use the left overs of the back to bind the quilt and she informed me that using any fabric on the back was simply against the rules on the front. At the time I thought she knew what she was talking about, but she was just set in her ways and pushing her quilting inside the box advice off on me. I now know from this website that you can do whatever you want. You are your own quilt police. I think it is a great idea using scraps up and not letting them accumulate! Have fun with it!

[MayinJerset]

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Welcome from New Jersey, You certainly can use leftovers from the front in your backing, leftover blocks too, it's your quilt so do whatever you want to. Once I had a huge stack of 12" Squares that sort of went together re: color and theme. I cut the ones liked into smaller pieces and made a nice scrappy quilt top. I sewed the leftover squares together and used them for the backing and both sides of the quilt looked good.

[goofyizzy]

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For my first few quilts I decided to be "economical" and used less expensive solids rather than the designer fabrics that were used for the front of the quilts. I wish I had used prettier fabric on the back. If you use your quilts you see the back of the quilt just as much as the front. It deserves to be pretty too.