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I have been struggling over two weekends to sandwich a large quilt. I have a ping pong table for this purpose, however its not quite large enough so I have to do it in two sections. I was careful to stretch the backing and make sure everything was right. I used a combination of the spray glue and pins to hold it all in place.

Initially last weekend I thought I had it right and started from the centre to quilt, but then I noticed that the backing was really loose, so I went back to the table and re-pinned it, and started stitching again. But it still wasnt right.

This morning, I took it back to the table (for the third time) and really took my time to re-pin it again. What dawned on me this time is that the spray glue had not worked. I used almost the full can, and the backing fabric was still flapping in the wind. the only thing keeping it all together was the pins.

I did a bit more stitching, but have come to the conclusion that I am going to have to unpick all the quilting I have done and get new batting. There are little tucks all over the backing and it looks bad.

I have not used this brand of batting before - it was bamboo (which I have used) but I got this batting as a giveaway with a magazine subscription. Never again, I should have known better.

Is it possible that the glue would not stick to the batting? Is it the batting that is c rap? The batting is not even sticky, after all the glue I used.

I am so depressed, I did have 6 weekends to finish this quilt before taking it to its new owner in Sydney. Now I cant even start until I have unpicked the lot. This has never happened before. :(