Rhondals

I finished Mr. Chillingsowrth. He is 62x59. I tried basting it, and the quilt won. I tried pin basting and I thought it had too much gaps.I bought 505 spray, and it was fair but I realized my back (which I know should be 4 inches larger) wasn't large enough. I didn't spray the top batting, just the bottom side of the batting. I don't mind buying more batting, and certainly quilt backing at 108 inches wide.

I looked on youtube, and even on Leah Day's website who I stalk. So after spending a few hours trying to baste it, I decided to take it to a shop to be quilted, or atleast basted. I have an idea how I want to quilt it, but my machine, a Janome New Home 2014 doesn't have a long throat. I can quilt it, but the quilt seems too large to try. I know how to quilt it,but basting it together, apparently I'm not very good at it. I've only made a baby quilt for a class, and I made a few smaller sized quilts, and one about the size of this one, but it's quilted fair.

So should I take it to the shop and let them quilt it? I can do binding, and I do it well. My next quilt will be sent out, it's much larger. I don't know how to baste something this large. (it covers the top of a queen sized bed, or the whole kitchen floor.) Do you send them to the quilter when they are this size, or do you do them yourself, if you have a home machine. I'm baffled I couldn't baste it.

Eva Knight

I spray baste mine on a table, one half at a time, starting in the middle. It is doable, just take your time. I have quilted a few king size quilts on my home machine with a 7 inch harp. Mark the quilt into 4ths. Starting in the middle and work to the side of each section. That way you only have half of the machine in the harp at a time.

Rhondals

Then I need a different back, and batting. I will start over, and do this on the kitchen table.

Jingle

I always totally make my quilts including quilting them. You could think about QAYG, several different methods.

PaperPrincess

Many long arm quilters also offer a basting service. You could check in to that also.

NJ Quilter

I baste my quilts - regardless of size - on my cutting table. I start by centering the backing on the table and use the large, office binder clips and clip all around the edges. Next goes the batting and get that all centered. Use the same clips to hold that down. Finally the top with the same process.

Depending on the size of the quilt I will either thread or pin baste - usually pin. I start in the center and pin about a hand-width apart in all directions. Same if I thread baste - start in the center and about a hand-width apart. Once I have the center completed, I shift the whole sandwich to get to the next area and follow the same process.

It's tedious when doing a king size quilt as it needs to be shifted and re-clipped multiple times but it beats crawling around on a floor - if I had that much open floor space, which I do not.

Can't help you with the quilting part in your machine as I'm a hand quilter.

117becca

Have you looked into the Sharon Schamber method of basting a quilt? You can find it on YouTube. I don't pin baste because it is very heavy by the time i finish pinning my queen size quilts.

Stitchnripper

I use elmers washable school glue. I don't dilute it or spray it or paint it in. I drizzle a thin bead in a grid sort of where I would put pins. Search here on the board and read up on it. It has really made a huge difference for me. When dry it does not gum up the needle and it always washes out. If you read what everyone else is saying you will get a lot of good information.

Rhondals

I have checked on Sharon Schaumberg's basting method. I don't have a quilting table, but do have a dining room table.All of these are great ideas. I'll buy some large quilt clips. But I'm not sure they'll work on my dining room table. I almost did this one QAYG, but I'm not sure how to do it. I'll check youtube.

MadQuilter

I just tried this method and it worked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPedPf4hdVY