No seam down the middle.
108" wide 100% cotton quilting fabric, 3 yard cut, in a soft mottled gray tonal that shifts from pale silver to soft cloud.
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 gray
It is a light gray with weather in it. Pale silver in one place, soft cloud in another, moving across the cloth so that nothing ever sits flat.
This is the back for a scrappy quilt, the one made of forty fabrics that agree on nothing. Gray takes them all without picking a side. It is the back for a two color top, the navy and white or the red and cream, where anything with a color of its own would turn two colors into three. And it is the one to reach for behind a soft low contrast top, all creams and dusty pinks, where a darker backing would shadow through the batting and dull everything above it.
White would do none of this. White is a decision, and it shows every mark the years put on a quilt.
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
Grays are the hardest colors to trust on a screen. The same cloth reads cool and blue on one monitor and warm and putty on the next, and neither of them is what 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.
