Thread: ARG! Need some advise/tips

Originally Posted by Jingle

I have a glass topped dining table, use clamps from home depot. I pin with safety pins and move , clamp and keep going until it is all pinned. Good luck.

I do something similar to Jingle. I use my cutting table which is about 40" by 60" and don't usually make anything larger than around double bed size. I center the quilt back on the table and fasten it down, then add the other parts and smooth them down. After basting the middle, I unclamp and move the whole piece left or right. Most of the time I am able to get the rest of that side onto the table. Repeat the clamping and pinning. Then do the opposite side the same way. Once the center is done, I turn the quilt 90 degrees so most of the top is now on the table. Continue the process and then do the bottom the same way. I can't get down on my knees to do it, and most of the house is carpeted (this is Minnesota, after all!) So this works for me.

Do you have a wall you could use? I've read of others who have basted this way, but I think it was spray basting.

I got to the library

I don't have space either and animals that love to walk all over the fabric. I put my cats in my sewing room and put the dog in the bedroom with closed doors. I then quick vaceum my floor and then go to work taping down my quilt . Works for me.

you can baste a king size quilt on a card table. Just center each piece then baste that section; pull the next unbasted section over the card table. Then pull right, left, top bottom and baste until all is completed. No need to lay it out full on the floor or table.

I take it to work and put it together after hours or at lunchtime