I think I will hand tie this one, good idea, but I will get some flannel and try that for another one. I don't think minky is available over here. Thank you all.

So glad I jutst read this, I was just heading to town tomorrow morning to try a large quilt with fleece, to free motion (funny, you try something on a small piece and it seems like it might work but on an actual quilt it is pure h***!

If you ever really want to use fleece or minky it CAN be done on a longarm. I've done it several times and love the way it looks, especially free motion. Flannel works well too, and I imagine would be fine on a domestic machine.

I use it often. Sometimes I tie but will also do machine quilting. Baste it well and it should do fine.

I was thinking of using fleece as batting (a recent post gave me the idea)
Should I tie it then?? I don't MQ very well yet.

I learned my lesson with trying to sew with fleece as the backing. It was so frustrating!! Was soo glad to be done with it! I would go with flannel over the fleece

I made a sat blanket withe squars of fleese scraps on both sides like a rag quilt and when i was done, I did not cut the seams because it was too thick. turn it on the non-seam side for the two cats and they love it. i would not use for backing on quilt, flannel is a better choice.
sorry you have to start over.

I was asked to quilt a fleece backed quilt and asked permission to turn it over and quilt on the fleece side up so the "top" beccame the back. It worked fine on my longarm.

Maybe I'm missing the obvious because I have very little experience with machine quilting, which I'm trying to learn right now, but your mention of using the walking foot makes me think you may not have tried free motion on it with the feed dogs lowered or covered. I have the intention to create a little project with calico on the pieced side and fleece on the back, and I will soon find out what's what, I have a feeling! If that doesn't work well, maybe it would be possible to quilt it with some paper or other tear-away product under it? Alternatively, could it be worked with the fleece side facing up? (It would be impossible to follow the patchwork, of course, though you could probably mark the corners of squares with pins or wash-away marker.) If it was not sidetracking from my present project, I'd run over to the machine to test a bit right now. Good luck!

Great minds think alike. We posted the same idea almost simultaneously. I didn't see yours because it took me more than 2 minutes to type. It's good to know it can be done. For me it was just a hunch.