Today I'm honored to help Kelly Young of My Quilt Infatuation launch her newest book, Perfectly Pieced Quilt Backs. Kelly is a master of improvisational piecing, and she shares patterns and techniques in her two previous books, Stash Statement and Scrappy Improv Quilting. But this time she lends her out-of-the-box thinking to the design of quilt backs.
Kelly offers patterns for 30 - yes, 30! - different quilt backs, each in three sizes, lap, twin and queen. 15 of the patterns use scraps and leftovers, the rest use stash and yardage. There's a backing for every possible top.
I chose the Intersection back, page 130, for my Red Round Robin Medallion. Here's Kelly's book image:
See that little bit of the quilt top showing at the corner? There are 18 FREE downloadable bonus patterns for the "fronts" featured in the book, lap size only.
Anyway, I chose the Intersection back for several reasons:
- It corresponds with the medallion aspect of the front of my quilt;
- I could make it work with the sizes of the leftover fabrics I had on hand plus a little extra:
- I could easily adapt the size to work with the size of my quilt front.
So here's my Intersection back:
And here's the front it goes with:
Perfect, don't you think?!
And I never would have thought to do something creative like this without Perfectly Pieced Quilt Backs. No, I don't have my quilt sandwiched and quilted yet, but it will get there. And when it's finished, it could even be considered a two-sided quilt.
PCQuilters make a lot of charity quilts and backings are expensive. I'm sharing Perfectly Pieced Quilt Backs with the committee members who make backings, because they'll be able to make pieced backings from the stash of random and smaller pieces we also use for the tops. Kelly's patterns are arranged by scrap size and/or number of fabrics needed, to make backing pattern choices easier.
I see more pieced backings in my future quilt making thanks to Kelly's book. If you're interested,
Perfectly Pieced Quilt Backs is available everywhere you usually buy quilt books online- Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Connecting Threads, Missouri Star, and signed copies are also available from Kelly's Etsy shop. It is also being carried by many quilt shops, so ask about it at your local shop, because it has also been picked up by ALL the major distributors. For more information, visit Kelly's website at http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/
Some of my favorite quilters are also helping Kelly launch her new book today. Check out their posts and their perfectly pieced quilt backings at the links below.
Congratulations, Kelly, on the publication of Perfectly Pieced Quilt Backs, and best wishes for its success.
Perfectly Pieced Backs sounds like the perfect addition to a guild's library to help use up scraps and make donation quilts cost effective. Your Intersection backing is perfect for the medallion, and I hope you have fun quilting and finishing it up when the time is right!
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ReplyDeleteYes, your backing is the perfect fit for your front! Well done!
ReplyDeleteI love your version of this backing, very pretty!
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