Quilt Backings
Quilt backings seem to create so much confusion. I'm going to share a few of my observations and what I like. You or your quilter may differ ... this is my opinion only. OK, here's one of mine that worked out very well with the pieced work on the front side. But it was just a happy coincidence. I tried, it's off but it still looks good. Basically, I like backings to be about 8" wider and 8" longer than your top. If seaming 2 widths of fabric together, I love to load that outer selvage to my rollers and have the seam running parallel to my bars. 10" larger is OK, anything more than that is excess fabric that I have to deal with. Longer is OK (but you need to know which way I want to load that top!) but a lot of excess to the width looks like this as the quilt advances. I loaded this one with about 5" excess on one side and the rest on the other side. Otherwise I would have had to deal with this on ...