If your making for a friend for winter quilt, then I would put some batting in as well as I know how cold the winters are there. Lived in Silver Lake and New munster area awhile.Hales Corner by isn't far from there!

Flannel is great on the back of a quilt. It is what I use on most of my lap quilts and baby quilts. I do not prewash the flannel as I do not prewash the cotton, and I haven't ran into any issues in the twenty-two years I've been quilting. I do however, wash the finished quilt in cold water, zero for delecates and 2-3 colour catchers. I find flannel is just so snuggly!

I've made several cotton tops with fleece backings (no batting) and also I've used batting in sections where I needed it to be trapuntoed. I have requests for 2 more. I've never used flannel backing yet. That sounds wonderful too.

I've had good luck with both!

Oh, I LOVE flannel on the back! SO soft! I still use batt though, perfect for those cold WIs winters!

I love flannel on the back & I still use w&n batting.

Sorry if this is changing the topic, but I have a question about backing and batting also that might fit in here. Have any of you used sweatshirt fleese for a backing, or used craft fleese for the batting? Sweatshirt fleese is very soft and just a little heavier than flannel , seems it would be good without a batting. Craft fleese doesn't stretch, , seems it would work as a light weight batting with flannel or cotton. Any ideas on this?

Glad you started this thread. My brother doesn't like the feel of fleece so I'm going to use flannel to back his quilt.
Flannel is so warm and cuddly, I love it.

I hav flannel backs and warm and natural batting on my heavier quilts. They're nice and I longarm quilted them.

Carol, you may want to start a new topic. Bet it will get more bites :D
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