I am currently working on my first Minky backed quilt and realized that I am no longer intimidated by the bad rap it had. I basted around the cut edges, spray basted plus pinned and have found that it is much easier to work with than anticipated. I love how it looks quilted.

I did not find that minky was too messy to work with. However, I used warm and natural and backed the quilt with the minky. Quilted fine on my Epic. The whole thing turned out so heavy. I would not use batting if I ever used the minky again.

I use minky as backing on all my baby quilts. I also use the thick poly batting because I like them fluffy & so do the moms. I quilt with the minky on as I prefer to stabilize the whole quilt.

Thanks for all the advice, everyone! I will definitely do a sample block sandwich to test it out. I was worried that quilting wouldn't look good on the Minky backing because of the "dots" of fluff, but I can't do anything fancy anyway, so I'm sure it will look ok.

When you use the long-arm do you 'float' the minky backing?

When quilting Minky on a longarm, I've found it helpful to pin an extra fabric stabilizer on the side edges to hold the selvedge edge more evenly. That way, I can also put a 58" quilt top on my 60" wide Minky. Here's some pictures.

Can you hand quilt a quilt with Minky back-?

You need to quilt all layers but use a walking foot to keep it from bunching. I usually spray and pin mine first to help keep it straight.