So yesterday, I thought I was making great headway on a little scrap quilt. I had pieced the back according to "John's diagonal method" and thought I had plenty of backing under this little quilt.
I realized just in the nick of time that the backing was going to be about 4" shy of getting to the edge of the last border... YIKES!!! how did that happen? I had measured so carefully - this just could not be!
I checked again... yes, for sure, it would not reach. Just a few inches.
So, what did I do you ask? (or maybe not...) I stopped right there in the middle of the quilt. I took the whole thing off the frame, and cut the existing backing fabric about 6 inches away from the quilting I had just finished - in a nice straight line.... well, okay, I confess - I actually TORE that strip off. I had a 'short' piece left in the 'backings box' that was never going to back much of anything and I cut that in half to make a piece long enough to match the piece I had already torn off the quilt back, sewed those together and then added the new piece a little into the middle of the quilt back rather than just adding it to the edge.
Now it looks like I pieced the back this way intentionally, and here is a pic of the finished quilt
yes, the binding is on it now... I used the dark teal/turquoise for the binding. all done. what's next?
I realized just in the nick of time that the backing was going to be about 4" shy of getting to the edge of the last border... YIKES!!! how did that happen? I had measured so carefully - this just could not be!
I checked again... yes, for sure, it would not reach. Just a few inches.
So, what did I do you ask? (or maybe not...) I stopped right there in the middle of the quilt. I took the whole thing off the frame, and cut the existing backing fabric about 6 inches away from the quilting I had just finished - in a nice straight line.... well, okay, I confess - I actually TORE that strip off. I had a 'short' piece left in the 'backings box' that was never going to back much of anything and I cut that in half to make a piece long enough to match the piece I had already torn off the quilt back, sewed those together and then added the new piece a little into the middle of the quilt back rather than just adding it to the edge.
Now it looks like I pieced the back this way intentionally, and here is a pic of the finished quilt
yes, the binding is on it now... I used the dark teal/turquoise for the binding. all done. what's next?