{"title":"Quilt Backing Fabric","description":"\u003ch2\u003eQuilt backing fabric, cut in one piece\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe back of a quilt is half of it, and it is the half nobody plans until the top is finished. This is where the backing fabrics live: wide cuts of 100% cotton that go under a quilt without a seam down the middle, plus everything you need to work out how much to buy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat wide back fabric is\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStandard quilting cotton comes off a 44 or 45 inch bolt. Once the selvedges are gone you have about 42 usable inches, which backs a baby quilt and nothing larger. For anything bigger you buy two lengths, join them, match the print across the join, press the seam open, and then hope the longarm does not land on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWide backing fabric skips all of that. It is woven on a wider loom, most commonly at 108 inches, so a single uncut piece goes right under a queen. Some mills weave 118 and 120 inch, which is as wide as quilting cotton is normally made, but 108 is the width the trade settled on and the one you will find most prints in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne 108 inch piece is the equivalent of about 7.2 yards of regular width cotton, which is worth remembering when you compare a price per yard and think the wide one looks dear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eHow much quilt backing fabric do you need\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe rule is simple: add eight inches to each dimension of the finished top, four inches of overhang on every side. Longarm quilters ask for that margin because the frame needs something to grip, and a back cut exactly to size is a back that comes up short once the quilting draws it in. If you are quilting it yourself on a domestic machine you can get away with six, but eight costs almost nothing and saves the whole project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWorking from 108 inch wide backing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ctable\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eQuilt\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eFinished size\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eBacking needed\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003e108'' backing\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBaby\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e40 x 50\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e48 x 58\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e1 3\/4 yards\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eThrow\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e55 x 70\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e63 x 78\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2 1\/4 yards\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTwin\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e70 x 90\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e78 x 98\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2 3\/4 yards\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eQueen\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e90 x 100\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e98 x 108\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e3 yards\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eKing\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e108 x 108\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e116 x 116\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003etwo 3 1\/4 yard pieces, one seam\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 3 yard cut of 108 inch backing is the workhorse. It measures 108 by 108 and covers a top up to roughly 92 by 92 with the allowance built in, which is most throw, twin and queen quilts in one seamless piece. A king is the one size that still wants a seam, but one instead of three.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat makes a good backing\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWeight first. A backing much heavier than the top fights the quilt sandwich and makes the whole thing hang stiff. A backing much lighter lets the batting shadow through. Standard quilting cotton on both faces is the safe answer, and it is why most backing fabrics are exactly that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThen the print. A busy or mottled print hides everything: the quilting stitches, the tension that went slightly off in the third row, the join if you had to make one. A flat solid does the opposite and shows every line as a hard scratch across the cloth. Tonals sit in the middle, which is why so many quilters keep coming back to them. If your quilting is meant to be admired, use a quiet backing. If it is meant to be forgiven, use a busy one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eColor last. A dark backing behind a pale low contrast top will shadow through the batting and dull everything above it. A white backing shows every mark the years put on a quilt. Grays and warm neutrals are neutral for a reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eCan you use a bed sheet\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePeople do, and it is not forbidden, but there is a reason quilters warn each other off it. A sheet is woven with a much higher thread count than quilting cotton, and that density makes it hard to needle. Hand quilters find it heavy going, domestic machines skip stitches, and longarm quilters will often refuse it outright or charge extra. Sheets also come with a hem and a fold line that never presses out. If the quilt is a picnic blanket, use the sheet. If it is going to be quilted properly, use backing fabric.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003ePrewash or not\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCotton shrinks two or three percent in the first wash. The question is whether you want it to happen before or after the quilting. If you prewash the top you must prewash the backing too, because a shrinking back under an unshrunk top pulls the quilt out of square. If you prewash neither, everything shrinks together and gives you the soft crinkle most quilters are after. What you must not do is prewash one and not the other. Strong colors are the exception: a saturated red or a deep navy is worth washing first whatever you do with the rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePress before you load. A backing that has been folded in a parcel has a crease in the middle, and a crease under a longarm becomes a tuck.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat we stock\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e108 inch wide quilt backing fabric in 3 yard cuts, in tonals that hide the stitching and go under almost any top, plus wider cotton by the yard in our \u003ca href=\"\/en-jp\/collections\/fabric-by-the-yard\"\u003eFabric by the Yard\u003c\/a\u003e collection for quilts under 55 inches wide. Cut and shipped from our own warehouse.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"northcott-108-x-108-wide-backing-fabric-cream","title":"108'' Wide Quilt Backing Fabric - 3 Yard Cut - Cream - Northcott Impressions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNo seam down the middle.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e108\" wide 100% cotton quilt backing fabric, 3 yard cut, in a soft mottled cream tonal that shifts from warm white to pale ivory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStandard 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout this cream\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a warm white rather than a bright one. Pale ivory where the dye sat lightest, a touch deeper in the folds, moving softly across the cloth so that nothing ever reads flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the back for a hand quilted top, where the stitches are meant to be seen but softly. On a stark white the same stitching reads as a hard line; here it settles into the cloth and looks like part of it. It is the back for a soft low contrast quilt, the pastels and dusty pinks and pale blues, where anything darker would shadow through the batting and dull everything above it. It is the back for a baby quilt, and for a wedding quilt, where cream carries the occasion without the coldness of pure white.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is also the honest neutral. A true white is a decision, and it shows every mark that thirty years of use will put on a quilt. Cream forgives the same marks and keeps looking like it was meant to be that color.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow much it covers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e108 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne honest note about the color\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePale neutrals are the hardest to judge on a screen. This cloth gets called cream in one shop, ivory, natural or warm white in the next, and a monitor will push it toward yellow or toward grey depending on the screen and the room it is in. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect for\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eQuilt backs, from throw size up to queen\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand quilting, where the stitches should show softly\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWhole cloth quilts\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLongarm and domestic machine quilting\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAny project where a seam would show\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e100% Cotton\u003cbr\u003e\n108\" Wide\u003cbr\u003e\n3 Yard Cut\u003cbr\u003e\nEquivalent to 7.2 yards of standard 45\" quilting cotton\u003cbr\u003e\nCollection: Northcott Impressions 108\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLess piecing. Less waste. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout this tan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a warm neutral, sand and cream moving through each other, lighter where the dye pooled and deeper where it settled. Nothing in it is flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the back for a reproduction quilt, the civil war prints and the 1930s repros, where a modern white would look wrong the moment the quilt was folded. It is the back for an autumn top, the rusts and golds and browns, which a cool gray would chill and this one warms. It is the back for a hand quilted heirloom, where the stitches are meant to be seen but softly, and cream lets them show without shouting. And it is the back for a quilt that will live in a house with dogs, children and a wood floor, because tan forgives what white puts on display.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf gray is the neutral that steps back, this is the neutral that warms the room. Both disappear behind a busy top. Only one of them makes it look like autumn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow much it covers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e108 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne honest note about the color\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis one has a naming problem more than a color problem. The same cloth gets called tan in one shop, beige in the next, cream, sand or taupe somewhere else, and a screen will push it toward yellow or toward pink depending on the monitor. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect for\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eQuilt backs, from throw size up to queen\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWhole cloth quilts\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLongarm and domestic machine quilting\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAny project where a seam would show\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e100% Cotton\u003cbr\u003e\n108\" Wide\u003cbr\u003e\n3 Yard Cut\u003cbr\u003e\nEquivalent to 7.2 yards of standard 45\" quilting cotton\u003cbr\u003e\nCollection: Northcott Impressions 108\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLess piecing. Less waste. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout this red\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow much it covers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e108 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne honest note about the color\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReds 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect for\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eQuilt backs, from throw size up to queen\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWhole cloth quilts\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLongarm and domestic machine quilting\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAny project where a seam would show\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e100% Cotton\u003cbr\u003e\n108\" Wide\u003cbr\u003e\n3 Yard Cut\u003cbr\u003e\nEquivalent to 7.2 yards of standard 45\" quilting cotton\u003cbr\u003e\nCollection: Northcott Impressions 108\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLess piecing. Less waste. 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Nothing to join, nothing to line up, nothing running across the back of your work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStandard 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout this gray\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhite would do none of this. White is a decision, and it shows every mark the years put on a quilt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow much it covers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e108 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne honest note about the color\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGrays 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. 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