Over Easy: Creative Ideas for Pieced Quilt Backs

Add pizzazz to the flip side of your quilts! Make the back of your quilt as fantastic as the front with these easy techniques for pieced quilt backings—so easy, in fact, you can complete most of them in an afternoon.

• Start with 13 step-by-step ideas, plus over 65 photos and illustrations that will inspire you to get creative

• Try a single oversized block, preprinted panels, simple strips and squares—even use your UFOs or the author’s "one-yard wonder" technique

• Find patterns to fit a variety of quilt backs, from baby quilts to bed quilts

Home: Sioux City, Iowa

Three-time author Lerlene Nevaril is the co-owner of Heart and Hand Dry Goods Company, which was chosen as one of the top ten quilting shops by American Patchwork & Quilting in 1999. Lerlene has taught quiltmaking throughout the Midwest and the South since 1985.