Pin basting and/or spray basting
03-19-2012, 06:52 AM
#42
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Utah
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I'm a hand quilter and love it. I use the old fashioned quilt stands and boards for frames and C clamps to hold it tight. I would LOVE to machine quilt but don't have the nice big long arm and I get very frustrated trying to sandwich everything together.
03-19-2012, 09:29 AM
#45
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Join Date: Feb 2009
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I pin using pinmoor's to hold them. I was using safety pins, but, found it made my fingers sore. With the pinmores I put the pin in a pinmoor on the end . It's faster for me.
http://www.pinmoor.com/
http://www.pinmoor.com/
03-19-2012, 09:46 AM
#46
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Small town in Northeast Oregon close to Washington and Idaho
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I have done both all pins or all spray baste, and both. But I recently got one of those little guns that shoot a super thin plastic thing through the whole quilt. Sorta like what hold a tag to knew clothes. Only much much smaller. I loved it. No shifting and stopping to pull out safety pins or mess from over spray. The hardest part was going over the quilt and finding all the little things to get them out. Silly me didn't use a contrast color.
03-19-2012, 03:20 PM
#47
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Iowa
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I use elmer's school glue quite a bit. i have just started using it and I love it. I am making a trip around the world with 2 1/2" blocks so when i stitch all blocks together then I use the glue to line up seams with the strip and the quilt. It helps keeping everything where it should be and makes for a much nicer less stressful quilt. I will post pic when I get it finished.
03-19-2012, 03:51 PM
#48
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I use curved safety pins at approximately hand-width apart. Most of the time I do Stitch in the Ditch, so I make sure not to pin in my path of the machine. Once one direction is completed, I take the pins out and finish any kind of quilting still to be done. Never tried the spray and I don't think I will start. (You should see me with a can of hair spray - a disaster at best)
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