TBT Shoofly - Part Deux

.. the rest of the story

Revisiting some of my oldest quilts has been personally enlightening

and, before I forget it, I want to thank

Krista at Krista Quilts for hosting her version of Throwback Thursday.

Shoofly on Steroids

For some finished quilts there is a back story -- er, I mean a story about the back.  Such is the case with "Shoofly on Steroids" that I reviewed last week.


Again, I was a new quilter, watching every daily rerun of Simply Quilts, absorbing every new idea thrown my way.  (Oh wait, as a new quilter every idea was new!)  Somewhere I heard or read the suggestion to use up excess fabric on the back.

I took this to heart:

Original Shoofly Back

(I had to drape it around the end of my fabric shelves to get a halfway decent shot.)

In the end I replaced it with a single fabric because I was too embarrassed to put such a mess on the back of my "masterpiece."  I had even gone to the effort of basting the quilt before I realized that actually quilting the sandwich was WAY beyond my abilities at that point (still is!) -- plus it needed to be done by Christmas -- so I unbasted and went to Plan B.  Not wanting to waste such large cuts of fabric, I folded it up and buried it on the shelf where it still resides.

I suppose in today's environment it would be considered a very modern top!  What goes around, comes around.

Linking up with Krista for Throwback Thursday.