Backs With Multiple Pieces
Many quilters use a single fabric for the quilt back, thus keeping the focus on the quilt top. It can be a great way to slash your stash of some large cuts of fabric. Some, however, enjoy the creative challenge of adding a design to the quilt back, almost making the quilt reversible--two quilts in one! Though “hidden” on the back of the quilt, these extra touches are often cherished as much as the quilt itself.
Piece leftover fabrics from the quilt top or from an entirely different quilt project. The fabric in this quilt back showcases some of the same red and black prints and black-and-white batiks used in the quilt top. Unlike the quilt top that sports star shapes placed deliberately among squares and rectangles, the pieced backing creates a strong vertical design with strips of fabric in varying widths. Piecing the strips together with a diagonal seam, instead of a horizontal seam, adds a sense of movement across the quilt back.
Continued on Page 2: Using Leftover Blocks
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