rburnitt

I want to know how you guys set up your quilts to bast them? I usually use sray basting and that works good but how do you have enough space to do it? Having trouble finding a place big enough for the quilt. Please help!!!!!!!

gale

I don't spray but I use a table that I bought at Joann's and I just move the quilt around since the table isn't big enough for a whole quilt.

cjomomma

I baste mine on a wall. I cover my wall with duck cloth then pin my backing to the wall nice and tight. This works really great for me because I don't have a very big space to do the basting on the floor or table. The down fall is that the floor gets awefully sticky.

Sadiemae

Some quilt shops and/or fabric stores have classrooms that you can use. Just a thought...

erstan947

I go to my church's fellowship hall. I protect everything and spray baste. I use tables so I don't have to do hands and knees:)

QuiltingGrannie

Before I got my longarm I would move the dinning room furniture into the living room, mob the floor and then lay the quilt sandwich on the floor to pin baste it. It wasn't fun, but got the job done ---- and my floors cleaned!

Debbie C

this is the best way I've ever seen - google Sharon Schambers Basting and you will be amazed at the simplicity of her technique - I have tried it on my most recent, a king sized quilt and it works!!!

Dina

I use pins, not the spray stuff. I just center the whole "sandwich" on my table, and then move it twice until the whole thing is pinned. Works. Isn't easy or quick, but it works.

moonwork42029

I used the conference table where I work... I too covered it all and then taped it to the table and worked away.

Did it afterhours the spray wouldn't bother anyone...never could smell it because it's such a big room.

Barb_MO

I spray baste with June Tailors spray. I work on my deck, putting down a large sheet, lay the backing down and then the batting. Smooth it all down and then fold back the batting at the middle. With my shoes off, I walk up to the end and on the batting I folded back and spray that half of the batting. Then pick up the batting and start walking forward until I get it back where it should go. then do the other end and the top the same way.
Don't have to get on hand and knees much that way.