I have found some really cute flannel but I don't usually work with flannel. Does anyone still use it? And for what?

I love making kids quilts from flannel. It is real cozy

omg!!! i love working with flannel! makes the most fluffy, soft, cuddly quilts out there!

I LOVE flannel. I back most of my quilts with it because it gets softer and softer and more cuddly with every use. Nothing is a cozy, to me, as flannel.

I really like flannel fabric, particularly the varigated ones. The example below is a simple throw using a varigated red on front and back and a black in the middle.

Lanny

I love it for raggy quilts.

Well another opinion. I do not like working with flannel. It causes a lot of lint in my machine, wears much faster then normal good quilter's quality cotton and after 5 or so washes feels hard and has little balls on it. I make an effort to buy Marcus Brothers flannel or other good flannel. Only some solids and checks was up nice and soft over time most others seem to get rough.

I use it alot for quilts, rag and pieced. I think it makes a warm cozy quilt. you do get lint from it, but i clean out my bobbin area when i replace the bobbin so it's not really an issue for me.

See that is what I had heard before, so that is also why I have avoided it to. :-)

I love working with flannel. Great for baby quilts, rag quilts, or any kind of quilt.

I use it to back quilts often. I love it - so soft and cozy.

I have never found my flannel backed quilts to get anything but softer with washing...I have flannel pj pants that have lasted me 10 years and are still in near perfect shape, save for fading. They see much more abuse than any blanket or quilt I've used.

It IS lintier though, and I do have to clean my machine often while using it. Totally worth it, to me.

I have used it to back quilts and I really like it, especially for baby quilts. I have always used inexpensive flannel (the kind that sells for something like $3 or $4 a yard at Jo-Anns) and it has held up fine. My daughter's favorite baby quilt has been washed probably a hundred times and it's back with flannel and tied! LOL* It's worn but still loved.

I have also used flannel in place of batting - I don't remember where I heard you could do that but I experimented with it. I wasn't crazy about how it quilted, it didn't have enough loft for my taste so I'll probably just stick to using it for backing from now on.