Advice please - using fleece as backing and batting
 

The fleece I was planning to use as a batting and backing has stripes. I've just realized the stripes will show through with some of my lighter fabrics on the front. With this particular quilt, I can't change out the lighter colors for darker ones. Is there anything I can do? I was wondering if I could put a layer of white muslin between the quilt top and the fleece. IDK. That may cause more problems than it's worth.

I can always use regular white batting for this one and a regular backing and save the fleece for a quilt with dark fabrics on the top.

Thanks!

I use a batting and fleece
Kirsten

I hadn't thought of that. I have pretty thick fleece. Was yours also thick?

I use Warm and Natural batting with fleece. It's thick, but not impossibly thick. I like how it turns out.

I've fused a quilt top to cheap muslin before (the quilt top was very old fabric with issues so it needed more structure & I didn't want to dye stabilizer to match). I used Pellon 805. It turned out fine. In the future, I'd probably go with Misty Fuse instead because it has more movement, but honestly, after it was washed twice, the 805 softened right up. I quilted mine with a 70/10 Microtex needle and Aurifil 50wt thread because the holes will be more evident with the muslin fused to it unless the thread completely fills in the hole. With fusible, the holes do not shrink closed as readily as they would with regular quilters cotton or muslin by itself.

Also, unless your quilt top is mainly bright white, I'd probably go with a natural colored muslin over a bleached muslin. The white will show through a bit if your top is either off-white or pastel colored. Finally, this is the one time where picking the absolute thinnest (cheapest) muslin that JAF sells is the way to go.