I made my first ever charity quilts and the charity in question prefers their volunteers to use fleece for the quilt backing so I decided to have a go even though I’d never used fleece before.
I used a spray baste for this. I placed a single piece of fleece right side down on the floor and centred the quilt top on the top right side up.
Baste the Quilt Top to the Fleece Back
I used a decorative stitch on my janome sewing machine that had a small leaf design on it. I thought that would tie in well with some of the motifs in the blocks.
Quilting with a Fleece Backing
Now the colours in these blocks are not ones I use a lot so I struggled to find anything in my stash that was the right colour for a traditional binding.
Self-Binding
The second quilt I made was slightly smaller than the first but still a smidgen bigger than a baby quilt.
Method 2: Fleece Quilt Back with Batting & Cotton Binding
I still had some spray baste left so I used the same process as above but first basted the batting to the fleece and then the quilt top to the batting.
Baste all Three Layers of the Quilt
I just used a regular quilting needle – nothing special and no special thread either, just a regular cotton thread.
Free Motion Quilting with a Fleece Back
I made a scrappy binding with the 2.5″ strips and used the machine binding method to attach it.
Binding with Cotton Fabric