As the Mystery Quilt is within a gnat's whisker of being pieced, I've been thinking about the backing and, as I still love this quilt and it's ten days until I can get to the Cotton Patch for wadding, I thought I'd piece the backing but how? I'm planning to quilt it by hand using big stitch quilting and will probably quilt it more than I usually do (because it's usually Christmas Eve, the day before someone's birthday, the morning of the FoQ when I'm quilting).
As usual, I'm finding it difficult to come to a decision so here's what I have.
The quilt top about 48" squarish
2m x wof purple batik which I bought to be the backing of this quilt at FoQ the year before last (not big enough on its own) and 12 four patches left over from when fabrics 2 and 5 swapped over
About 1m of the teal background fabric, 1/2m of the feature fabric, less of the other fabrics
I was thinking of making more blocks like clue 5 but using different fabrics with the background fabric and making a strip to go within the purple batik.
Do you think that would work? Does the batik even go?