No seam down the middle.
108" wide 100% cotton quilting fabric, 3 yard cut, in a rich mottled red tonal that shifts from scarlet to deep crimson.
At 108 inches across, this single piece backs a queen size quilt on its own. Nothing to join, nothing to line up, nothing running across the back of your work.
Standard quilting cotton comes off the bolt at 44 or 45 inches wide. To back anything bigger than a lap quilt with it, you buy two lengths, join them, match the pattern, press the seam open, and then hope it lands somewhere your longarm will forgive. This piece is 108 inches in both directions, which is the equivalent of 7.2 yards of regular width fabric, in one uncut piece.
About this red
It is a true red with depth in it. Scarlet where the light catches, deep crimson in the folds, moving across the cloth the way dye moves through cotton.
This is the back for a Christmas quilt. Not a novelty print with candy canes on it, which ties a quilt to one collection and one year, but a red that reads festive on its own and still looks right in March. It is the back for a red and white top, the traditional kind, where the red carries through to the other side and the quilt is finished on both faces. It is the back for a patriotic quilt, and for anything with red in the piecing that deserves to be pulled out rather than politely ignored.
A red backing is also the one people notice. A quilt folded over the end of a bed shows its back more often than its front, and this is a back worth showing.
How much it covers
108 inches in both directions backs a quilt top up to roughly 92 by 92 inches with generous allowance all round for a longarm. That covers most throw, twin and queen tops in one seamless piece.
For a king, you will want two. One seam instead of three or four, and enough left over to back a throw, line a bag, or start something else entirely.
One honest note about the color
Reds are the hardest colors to photograph. Screens push them toward orange on one monitor and toward pink on the next, and neither is the cloth you will be holding. Order it, unwrap it, and put it next to your quilt top in daylight. If it is not the one, you have sixty days to tell us and we refund every cent, return shipping included, no restocking fee.
Perfect for
- Quilt backs, from throw size up to queen
- Whole cloth quilts
- Longarm and domestic machine quilting
- Any project where a seam would show
Specifications
100% Cotton
108" Wide
3 Yard Cut
Equivalent to 7.2 yards of standard 45" quilting cotton
Collection: Northcott Impressions 108"
Less piecing. Less waste. More quilting.
