New subscriber here! I stumbled on your video as I have just finished a quilt top. I always have to refer back to a backing tutorial and reinvent the wheel every time it seems. I love your teaching style and will save this video for future reference. Thank you!
Great tutorial, as always, Shelley! I’ve made an executive decision to use wide fabrics for backings. Wide backings used to be printed on lesser-quality qreige goods even when they “matched” a quilt shop quality fabric line. But these days the wide fabrics I’m seeing are good quality. So the offcuts can be used in scrap projects. A 108” wide fabric is often less than twice the cost of a 42” wide fabric. And I often find good sales on wide fabrics. The convenience of not needing to seam the fabric is worth it or me!
This is the most precise video I’ve seen on this. Others I’ve watched ended up just a big pile of fabric being tossed around with dubious & non- confident voice overs. Soooo THANK YOU!!!🎉🎉🎉 I think I can actually do this now
Excellent video! I use hand weights to hold down my fabric when cutting. Both on the ruler and the fabric if it's sliding away. Just 3 lb weights from Target.
Brilliant timing, ive just finished a quilt top for my son for christmas & really struggling mentally with how to cut the meters of backing fabric! Thankyou for a fantastic tutorial, giving me more confidence to go tackle it ❤
Great tips. I do quilting for others & get tons of not so squared backs. That is top & bottom as well as the sides. I don’t like piecing backs either but this did look easier.
Okay, I've added a pattern matching video to my to-do list! I mostly shop at small, local Canadian shops. Not sure that would be very helpful for you! But I'm on a tonne of quilt shops' email lists and snap up any backing deals that I see. 👍
I mostly shop at small, local Canadian shops. Not sure that would be very helpful for you! But I'm on a tonne of quilt shops' email lists and snap up any backing deals that I see. 👍
I mostly shop at small, local Canadian shops. Not sure that would be very helpful for you! But I'm on a tonne of quilt shops' email lists and snap up any backing deals that I see. 👍
I don't prewash any of my fabric, and I alternate between tearing and cutting the fabric. I find I need to trim the sides whether I tear or cut, so it doesn't make much of a difference to me.
This is an unbelievably helpful video. Thanks so much !
Great video! I would love to see one on matching prints as well:)
Okay, I've added a pattern matching video to my to-do list! 📝
New subscriber here! I stumbled on your video as I have just finished a quilt top. I always have to refer back to a backing tutorial and reinvent the wheel every time it seems. I love your teaching style and will save this video for future reference. Thank you!
So glad this video found you at the right time! 🎉
Great tutorial, as always, Shelley!
I’ve made an executive decision to use wide fabrics for backings.
Wide backings used to be printed on lesser-quality qreige goods even when they “matched” a quilt shop quality fabric line. But these days the wide fabrics I’m seeing are good quality. So the offcuts can be used in scrap projects. A 108” wide fabric is often less than twice the cost of a 42” wide fabric. And I often find good sales on wide fabrics.
The convenience of not needing to seam the fabric is worth it or me!
Love that you've found a system that works well for you! ❤
This is the most precise video I’ve seen on this. Others I’ve watched ended up just a big pile of fabric being tossed around with dubious & non- confident voice overs. Soooo THANK YOU!!!🎉🎉🎉 I think I can actually do this now
So glad this video was helpful! You got this! 😊
Excellent video! I use hand weights to hold down my fabric when cutting. Both on the ruler and the fabric if it's sliding away. Just 3 lb weights from Target.
Hand weights are a genius idea! Thanks for sharing! ❤
I have this EXACT RSS backing fabric and I've been procrastinating sewing that one seam. Great tutorial, as always!
This is the sign you've been looking for - it's time! 😆
Brilliant timing, ive just finished a quilt top for my son for christmas & really struggling mentally with how to cut the meters of backing fabric! Thankyou for a fantastic tutorial, giving me more confidence to go tackle it ❤
So glad this video found you at the right time! You can dooooo it! 💪
Yes please make a video on pattern matching
I'll add it to the never-ending list! 📝
Great tips. I do quilting for others & get tons of not so squared backs. That is top & bottom as well as the sides. I don’t like piecing backs either but this did look easier.
Haha, yes! So many not-square quilt backings. I think people just don't know that our job would be easier if they were squareish. 🤷
The struggle is real! I procrastinate take a deep breath & procrastinate.
Haha, yes! Why is it so hard to sew one seam? The quilt top had, like, a million seams in it!! 😆
Definitely would love learning pattern matching… also where to go for five yard counts at a discount.
Okay, I've added a pattern matching video to my to-do list!
I mostly shop at small, local Canadian shops. Not sure that would be very helpful for you! But I'm on a tonne of quilt shops' email lists and snap up any backing deals that I see. 👍
Great video! Any recs on where to find 5 yd cuts on sale?
I mostly shop at small, local Canadian shops. Not sure that would be very helpful for you! But I'm on a tonne of quilt shops' email lists and snap up any backing deals that I see. 👍
Can you share where you get your discount 5 yard fabrics?
I mostly shop at small, local Canadian shops. Not sure that would be very helpful for you! But I'm on a tonne of quilt shops' email lists and snap up any backing deals that I see. 👍
What are your thoughts on tearing fabric instead of cutting? Do you prewash?
I don't prewash any of my fabric, and I alternate between tearing and cutting the fabric. I find I need to trim the sides whether I tear or cut, so it doesn't make much of a difference to me.
@matantequilting Thank-you.
What is the name of your handy dandy pressing tool
It's the Clover Finger Pressing tool, and it's linked in the video description. 👍