Sandwiching
#2
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: England Alton Towers
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Bottom goes on table wrong side up and tapped tautly.
Batting on top smoothed gently with finger tips.
Top on top right side up. Pin or tack from the centre.
I also smooth out from centre when glueing.
Batting on top smoothed gently with finger tips.
Top on top right side up. Pin or tack from the centre.
I also smooth out from centre when glueing.
#3
This is my least favorite thing to do in quilting. I just recently started sandwiching a quilt 105 X 105, what a pain. In desperation I hung it on a wall and let gravity help, if the weather was better a clothsline would work. The layers are almost even at one end. That's where I start basting and work all the way to the other end. The backing and the batting are three or more inches larger than the top (safety zone). Then when I start quilting I work from the center. There are a lot of different ways to do this but this works for me. I envy the long armers more for their frames, that eliminate this step, then for their machines.
#5
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Western Wisconsin
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There are so many different ways to sandwich a quilt, it's hard to answer your question. Depends on whether you are spray basting, thread basting or pin basting; depends on whether you are working on a table smaller than your quilt, whether you are basting in a frame, whether you are using Sharon Schamber's board method.
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