Perfectly Pieced Quilt Backs: Scrap-Smart Guide to Finishing Quilts with Two-Sided Appeal

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Before you jump right into the cache of quilt back patterns, review important points to keep in mind. A helpful opening section reviews quilt back basics, including sizing, seam allowance, pressing, quilting tools, and more. Take your quilts to the next level in a unique way! Make the back of a quilt as beautiful and interesting as the front with Perfectly Pieced Quilt Backs—the ultimate guide and source of inspiration for quilters of all skill levels to try something different. A complete guide to making a pieced quilt backing both with fabric scraps and yardage. Features 30 back quilt designs organized by type of fabrics used—15 use scraps of varying sizes and 15 use stash and yardage. Also includes 18 downloadable quilt front patterns that coordinate with all 30 back designs, as well as extensive finishing instructions and overviews on the quilt back basics, basting, and more.

The Scrap-Smart Guide to Finishing Quilts with Two-Sided Appeal includes small scrap designs such as Framed Orphan, Coin Strip, Cross Purposes, Tallies, and Every Little Bit; medium scrap designs such as Cool Columns, Railroad, Long and Short, Lava Flow, and Bar Graph; and large or mixed-size designs such as Chunky, Woven, Double Bar, Around the Corner, and Liberated Logs. "Kelly Young offers dozens of creative ways to use up absolutely every inch of fabric to make the back of your quilt as interesting as the front. Perfectly Pieced Quilt Backs is a must have for your quilting library," says Stephanie Soebbing, author of Fat Quarter Patchwork Quilts: 12 Beginner Patterns to Make with Precut Bundles and founder of Quilt Addicts Anonymous.

Make Your Quilt Special, From Front to Back includes two or three fabric designs such as Focus Stripe, Checkerboard, Walking Path, Islands, Broken Rugby Stripe, Tunnel Vision, and Don't Box Me In; and four or more fabric designs such as Intersection, T-Stripe, Topping Tower, Stash Rainbow, Skinny and Wide, Subway Stack, and Great Big Granny, as well as Fast Fat Quarters. The book also covers batting options including cotton, cotton/polyester blend, polyester, wool, and bamboo, as well as basting, walking foot quilting, free-motion quilting, trimming and binding your quilt, and downloading matching quilt front patterns.

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