Dclutter64

I have made many quilts with fleece backing. I quilt them on the longarm usually with no batting. Most of it came from Joann's. I have never had a problem with it.

meyert

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

Lori S

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.

Lori S

FYI - I like the classic 100 Polartec fleece.

bjhumes

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.

sandyfullmer

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!

sewnsewsue

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!

thread mess

I do a lot of charity quilts with pieced cotton tops and fleece backing. All fleece does stretch...so, I do a lot of quilting on these pieces. It helps to stabilized the quilts.

Lucy90

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.

Michelekolt

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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.