I watched many videos that were confusing; many videos were showing how many different ways to do pieced backing while in-between trying to explain how to do a simple backing, or would explain how to do a backing without showing (close up view/ detailed look at what they were actually doing) so just pretty much explaining it without a visual; from a far. This is the BEST Video I found. I was getting so frustrated :( You're the absolute best ; thank you for taking the time to do this video. Such a simple explanation; easy to understand concise and to the point 👍
Hi Carol, thank you for another helpful video. My brain is acting sluggish today, so I don’t think I’m appreciating the complete usefulness of your tip or technique. If my quilt top finishes st 70” square, I would cut my yardage about 2 x 80” long = 160”, the fold the selvages together, sew the seam along the selvage as you did, then cut the fabric along the fold. This would give me 80” square of backing, as long as the fabric is non-directional. If I made a king size quilt 108” square, I think your technique would work here, as well, however I think I’m missing something. Let’s say I doubled my backing yardage of 110” x 2 = 220”. If I folded this fabric in half to match up the selvages, and sewed along the selvage edge, I would still cut along the fold. My resulting backing size would be 110” x 80”, I think. Can your method be used for a larger quilt like the one I describe? It seems that since our yardage in sold in bolts of fabric 40-42” wide, the widest backing we could get is about 80”. Am I thinking correctly here? To make my 110” square backing, I could use your method to get a backing 120” x 80”, but then I would need to sew another width of fabric 120” x 40” to finally achieve my desired non-directional backing fabric to reach 120” x 120”. Does this sound correct to you? Something tells me that you might have an idea of how to get my 120” x 120” in a simpler way, even if it requires more than one seam. Do you have a suggestion that you could suggest? My brain is stuck on the fact that our yardage comes in standard 80” widths, meaning using this single seam method, the maximum backing width could only be about 80”, even though you could make the backing length as long as you desire. I thought you might see a method to simplify sewing a king size backing as I describe. I learn so much from your tips and you’re the only person I can think of asking this question. Thank you for any suggestions, because managing large pieces of yardage gets very clumsy, at times.
I think if you look over the information on my website you will have a clearer picture. Sometimes I write an article and supplement it with a video or two along with diagrams. So some of my videos are not complete pictures of the technique. The article you should read is Piecing the Backing - quiltnotes.com/learning-center/quilt-backing/ . Hope this helps.
