Thread: Fleece as quilt backing?

I have used fleece for the backing of several quilts. They do make for very cozy quilts with the fleece. I purchased some fleece from Joanne's and did not have any problems. I also purchased a lot of fleece from Pico Textiles which was very nice fleece and did not have problems. I quilted those quilts myself on my home machine, but it all went well

The quality of fleece varies widely... some will pill like crazy in the first wash. There is Anti pill fleece but I found there was still a bit of pilling. The very best fleece comes from Malden Mills and is sold as Polar Tec fleece. I have several garments made from it that are over 20 years old and still look like brand new after hard use and very frequent washing.

FYI - I like the classic 100 Polartec fleece.

I just pieced a baby quilt, NO batting and backed with fleeced and free motion quilted it. It turned out beautiful!
I may do this MORE! Oh fleece come from JoAnn's.

Wow ladies, lots of help. Thank you all. Sounds like I will be trying fleece for the first time. Will try to pick out a good quality piece to use. It's snowing here right now so fleece sounds nice!

I just quilted a huge quilt with a fleece blanket from Macys. I needed 90 X100 piece so a blanket allowed me to have a seamless back. I pinned heavily and used Thermore batting which I think helped the top and batting "stick" together well. Good luck, hope yours is not as big as mine. It was really rough on my arms and shoulders!

I have used fleece for backing on many quilts flannel & cotton tops. I never had a problem quilting it on my machine. I buy the better fleece with not much stretching. 505 spray works well & so does elmers glue.

Here is a fleece backing I did. TO help control the fleece from stretching. I blocked each square and then quilted a flower inside each square.