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Submitted by: Valerie Kalyani

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Usually an afghan is not given a backing. You just do the stitching as tidily as possible, working ends in carefully without knots and not carrying the threads across the back very far. If you are very unhappy with the appearance of the back, you could put a back on it, but it may be challenging depending on your design. <b>*Shrink the fabrics first!*</b> Wash BOTH pieces to ensure that your work is not destroyed by uneven shrinkage after assembly! If it is an afghan done in blocks, it is simple to just stitch down the lines formed by the blocks and then around the edges to attach a backing. This is easily accomplished on a sewing machine. If the pattern is more 'scattered' you may have to quilt around each motif; you may prefer to do that by hand. The simplest fringe you can do on an afghan is to work a border row of cross stitch all the way around at the point where you want your fringe to begin, and then draw out all the threads parallel to your stitches to make the fringe.

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