Before any one gets too excited about this baby quilt I made, Walmart did all the hard work. This was literally the first thing I ever bought. I figured I could hand tie the quilt and I would be able to have a quilt made around Christmas time. Long story short it took me 2 months to get my quilting frames (I got my mother in laws shipped up to me from southern Utah 300 miles south of me in Kanab). It has a funny story though, we bought this off of a bolt in Walmart and the guy at the table cutting was while not so sewing smart. The top was suppose to be 1 yard. Some fool had cut the previous top off about 5 inches from the end and the guy measured his one yard and was about to whack my baby quilt 5 inches from the side. we tried to show him that its a quilt top and he needed to cut it farther. He charged me for 1 1/4 yards because I wanted more lol I just wanted my full top.
So I have a question, Do you spay baste or do you pin baste? And why. The {not a tutorial} was great and if you don't spray baste I suggest you to read it and then come back here and give me your thoughts (oh ya comment on hers too we all love comments) . I am not sold one way or another, but I want to be and I need some good reasons to do it one way or the other so please give me your 2 cents on the matter.
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It depends on the piece, but I hand baste, pin baste, and spray baste. When spraying, read the product directions is all I can say. I use it very litely, let tacky dry and then the layering. And always wash that quilt afterwards. I always hand baste large quilts (queen/king). Most often pin baste - especially baby quilts, runners, wallhangings, small items. Anything free motion quilted is pin basted.
Richard I always spray & pin baste - both. First I lay out the layers and spray them securely then pin them, although not as closely as I would if there were no spray basting there. That baby never moves or shifts when I'm quilting! I wouldn't do it any other way, especially for the big quilts!
When I am quilting on my DSM, I spray baste everything. I just never really got the pinning right and always ended up with puckers on the back no matter how closely I pinned. The spray basting seems to hold everything together so nicely and I don't have to worry about checking the back to make sure it's smooth every few inches. I use a tube from a roll of batting to roll my quilt top/bottom on nice and flat and then roll off a section at a time when spray basting. That just makes it so much faster.
'Cheater' panels make some of the best baby quilts. They stand up to the washing much better than many pieced tops. Glad the spray basting worked better this time. The one time I did it, I did it on our patio table. I would think it helps to have 'help' when doing it. I sure could've use an extra pair of hands.
I do both. On larger pieces I've sprayed and then pinned. On smaller pieces I'll generally spray and maybe throw in a pin here and there.
I spray baste the small ones and pin the big ones.
Spray........every time. I may throw in a pin or two if it is really big, but not usually. Blessings on that baby : )
I use pins. Can't really be bothered with ordering the spray online as I don't have a proper local quilt shop nearby...Sometimes the pins annoy me so I take them out long before I need to, and just wing it which often works well. =D
I hand baste every piece. I hate to get tangled in pins. One blogger friend does back basting and it looks interesting but requires a machine. At the last quilt show I picked up "Mary's Basting Glue" from Mary Ceasar who is a Hawaiian quilt expert. That glue only neesd a tiny pin-head size touch and washes out with a que-tip in water. Spray is sticky and hard to control in my house. I don't like the stuff they make for paper either.
I pin baste. I barely have enough space to do that, and I definitely don't have enough space (and air circulation) to spray it out.
How about I don't baste? LOL If I'm going to quilt, it's going to be on a longarm, or at least a mid-arm, and no basting.
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