babyquiltlady

The use of minky in a quilt is lovely once the quilt is finished.
Thoughts on sewing with this type of fabric...

quiltingcandy

I haven't done it, but my friend did and had nothing but trouble. Since it has so much stretch to it, I had suggested she spray baste it first, but she didn't. You see it used by vendors in quilt shows, so there should be a lot of good advise to come.

whinnytoo

Ive used it for backings on baby quilts and had no problems whatsoever , quilting on the longarm

Jammin' Jane

I haven't had any problems with it.
I do use lots and lots of pins to keeps it from stretching!

jljack

It does stretch quite a bit, so you have to compensate for that. If you only do SID or by walking foot, it doesn't really work very well. I've heard that on a quilting frame it does fine.

kuseta

I just tried to use it and had problems with it leaving fuzzies on the front of the quilt through the needle holes. I did not have any batting in the sandwich, only a single layer of muslin to keep the red minkee from showing through to the white parts on the front. I was so unhappy with it, I ripped it out and used a cotton backing with batting instead. I've used fleece as backing with no problems, I didn't expect any with the Minkee. Might try it again with batting to see if that's any different. Otherwise, I won't do that again.

laughingquilter

When I use it in a quilt I press it on a stabilizer first to prevent stretching. It doesn't have to be a terribly strong/stiff stabilizer - just something to hold the shape until you've got it pieced.

Murphy

Welcome to the board from Iowa.

Kathy N

My longarm quilter uses it all the time for me on my quilts. It comes out beautiful. Her rule of thumb is it can stretch in only one direction. If your minkee stretches in 2 directions she will not use it because it will pucker on the back. I've purchased the Minkee from Joanns with the "bubbles" and everytime I have been thrilled with the end product!

katsbmr

i've been waiting on this subject. I have a longarm and have not tried it yet, but have heard women discussing using it. Like the stabilizer idea, but if it were used as an entire backing, that would be alot of stabilizer!