Lori Holt Wideback Fabrics from Riley Blake Designs
Lori Holt's Riley Blake fabric collections are among the most beloved in quilting — her cheerful, vintage-inspired aesthetic has built a devoted following. Linda's carries a range of Lori Holt 108" widebacks that provide perfectly coordinating backing fabric for Lori Holt quilt patterns. Riley Blake's tone-on-tone and seasonal widebacks are covered in the Shabby wideback guide, and wideback fundamentals in the Stonehenge 108" guide.
Available Collections
- Bee Ginghams — the classic gingham check in Brown Pebble and other colourways; the quintessential Lori Holt backing for any Bee-inspired quilt
- Prairie Flower — botanical vine and flower print in Natural Teal; cottage-garden inspired backing
- Vintage Happy 2 Blossom — cheerful mixed floral blossom in Green; one of Lori's signature Happy collections
- Bee Plaid — classic plaid in Green Backings; coordinates with the full Bee collection family
- Bee Dots — dotted companion print in Blue Denim
Why Lori Holt Wideback?
Using a coordinating wideback from the same collection family as your quilt top creates a unified, intentional finished quilt where front and back feel like they belong together. Lori Holt's palette is consistent across collections, so mixing and matching backing options within her fabric lines always works.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Which Lori Holt wideback is the universal pick?
Bee Ginghams — gingham is the visual language of the whole Lori Holt aesthetic, so a gingham back coordinates with any of her patterns regardless of which collection pieced the top. It's the backing her quilt-along community defaults to.
Can I mix collections — a Vintage Happy top with a Bee back?
Freely — Lori's palette is deliberately consistent across collections, so her cheerful reds, aquas, and greens coordinate line to line. That consistency is why her widebacks work as a standing backing library rather than one-pattern matches.
Do gingham and plaid backs need pattern-square loading?
Yes — checks telegraph skew at the binding edge, so load on-grain with a check-line sighted against the leader. Thirty seconds of squaring saves a visibly tilted gingham at the finished edge.
