I have used fleece backing on several quilts (but use batting too) and never had a problem. I do all my quilting on a regular home machine, but I also QAYG, and tend towards minimum required quilting since that part is not my favorite (quite possibly b/c I don't do it well). I have used regular foot, walking foodt and free motion foot depending on what I was doing and all 3 have worked, but the walking foot was easiest.