I know this is an older video and recently discovered this series. I had to write and thank you for doing this series. I've made about 6 quilts and struggled with piecing the backing. My latest quilt is for my granddaughter due in October. I made Lori Holt's name quilt from her Spelling Bee book. After watching this tutorial I'm happy to say I have a fabulous backing for my quilt. I will be following Gina's tips for machine quilting. Thank you so much to everyone at FQS!! ♥️
This was a fabulous 'class' on piecing the back of a quilt. I have not quilted in years and I have learned so much . These techniques make it so much easier to get this sometimes daunting task done. Thank you so much!
This series of putting a quilt together, backing…to binding, are the most helpful to me…I missed the basics of quilting class due to surgery…good job, Thanks for your help❤️🙏🥰
I didn’t know about the half inch seam either. This video was really helpful to me as I always struggle with piecing the backing. Everything makes sense! I use 108” just to make it easy but there are times when I want to use 42” wide fabric. Thank you thank you for this series😊. You did a wonderful job showing, explaining and teaching!
This video was so extremely helpful! I just successfully pieced my first backing. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with others. Why was I so scared? lol
I appreciate your tutorial. Loved the way you grabbed the 2 inside edges of selvage on the 2 lengths of fabric and put them together....this did change the way it was put on the bolt though, however, my fabric did go back together nicely.
I pre-wash, so I make it a little more complicated for myself....I'm wondering how she squares off the top and bottom edges? You would want to have that center seam running straight and if you have an insert, you wouldn't want that wonky. I'm learning some things, I was taught you should do two seams in the backing unless it's a small quilt, but I'm seeing that most don't think that's necessary. I'm glad for that, I won't worry about it so much!
it was hard for me to figure out what you were doing since the right and wrong sides are not easily seen. I think I will have to watch several more times to "get" it.
Struggled with this module. First one I could not follow well. I might have benefited from knowing where all the selvages were the entire time Kim was folding and cutting. But have my backing cut and sewn and am looking forward to putting the sandwich together.
Thank you, been quilting for years but never knew how to join the backing. Always bought 108” wide backing. Must try this. I’m a little confused on the folding so I’m going to have to watch a couple more times. Did I miss the video on joining the blocks. 🧵🧵🇨🇦
Thank you! Please check out the previous video on Sashing and Borders ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eGwffidHbWQ.html and check out this blog post for a little more info on the folding. blog.fatquartershop.com/the-ultimate-beginner-quilt-finishing/
I am also confused; after you cut backing into 2 60.5 pieces how do you fold? If keeping selvages together wouldn’t there be 4 selvage ends not 2.? Help please.
I'm already getting sad that this series is coming to an end in a couple weeks. Are there other *beginner* level quilt alongs on this channel that I could look up for quilt #2? :)
I'm a super beginner quilter but this was so confusing to me. I had a hard time understanding when to take selvages of the same fabric but folded (like it comes off the bolt) or when to put the two pieces together and line them up with their single selvage edge. I had to watch it a bunch of times
I was confused about the right sides together. I mean I understand that right sides need to be together to sew but my fabric came off the bolt with the right sides facing out, don’t you have to open up the fabric (not keep it together) in order to put the right sides together? She was using a solid and there was no right or wrong side but I’m using a print.
Was there a video for putting on the sashing and putting them together? Was it on the pattern sheet? Thanks Kimberly for this information, my backing is usually uneven and now I know why!
ok i think i'm a bit slow when it comes to understanding how to do the backing. i didn't quite catch what kimberly was doing with the fabric when she made the initial cut for the backing. it looked like she was refolding it a bit and then she made her initial cut. what did i miss? and then after the initial cut, how is she refolding it in order to then pin and piece it together? i don't understand and i really want to understand, because whatever she is doing seems so much easier than i've been doing it. suprisingly, for me, figuring out how to cut and piece the backing has probably been harder than learning how to piece blocks. and that's just using 1 fabric piece for the backing nevermind trying to do pieced backings with multiple fabrics (which looks super cute). help please 😰
Kimberly cut her 3 3/8 yardage of fabric in half. Then she aligned the salvages together, and ironed them. The 2 panels are refolded, aligned to the salvage. She starts pinning the opposite end of the fabric, parallel to salvage end. I hope this helped you
@@sylviavillalobos9779 thank you for trying to help. i like your explaination. i think i understand what she's doing. i'm just not sure i understand how she's doing it. i like that she's able to handle all that fabric without completely unfolding everything which is what i've done in the past and it all gets very unruly. i'm going to keep trying though. hopefully things will eventually make sense.☺️
@@xg__garbled Yes, like Sylvia explained, after she cut the 3 3/8 yardage in half, she grabbed a selvage edge from the top piece and bottom piece and pinned those two together to form the center seam. It's a different way than some of us are used to but it saves some fabric wrestling.
Xg garbled I’m in the same boat with you. I am a new quilter i know nothing about backing and I still have not grasped the whole cutting and piecing the back of my quilt. Kimberly is a good teacher and I’ll have to watch this several times to get the whole process because I am a slow learner.
Hello Chris! It’s standard to specify that the quilt back measures 4” larger than your quilt top on all sides which allows for enough space to clamp the quilt to the machine and quilt it without getting in the way of the edges. Here's a blog post that explains more blog.fatquartershop.com/5-tips-your-longarm-quilter-wants-you-to-know/
Hello Jules! The Ultimate Beginner Quilt is square, so it doesn't matter if the seam is horizontal or vertical. We usually prefer horizontal seams, but in some cases vertical seams use less fabric.
Hello Megan! She starts with 3 3/8 yards (121.5" x 40") and needs to cut them into two pieces (~60" x 40") in order to be able to sew them into a square backing.
After watching the video several times, I cut the back fabric, only to be left with one half that looks great and two other pieces, so I folded it wrong. Any way to sew the two other pieces, so I have two half pieces or do I need buy more backing fabric and try again. I'm a complete newbie and am spatially challenged.
I think this would have been better with a print so that we could see the right and wrong side and if you had laid out the folds. Nice black magic though 😜
Sorry about that! We've now called it out more clearly in the description box above. Sashing and borders ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eGwffidHbWQ.html
Would have been a lot better if she had a print fabric for a ‘learn how to quilt’ tutorial, also talk a cutting horizontally etc Not enough detail, and always talking about long arm instead of home quilters first. Yes, very confusing, shouldn’t have to watch over and over to get it…
Hello Michele! Since Kimberly is using a solid there is not a wrong side 2:49 If you are using a fabric that has a pattern for the backing you would put them where the patterns touch
You could have saved a lot of time and effort by cutting off the access first before you started ironing. You could have saved your viewers a lot of time by speeding through the ironing part. 🤦🏻♀️
