Stitch124

I have a couple quilts that needed to be sandwiched. One of them is 68"x68". I really didn't feel like crawling around on my kitchen floor on my hands and knees so I packed up my quilts, backing and batting, scissors, green Frog tape, spray baste, and headed to the library.

As luck would have it, the meeting room at the library wasn't in use (on a Sunday afternoon). Yeah! I probably should have called just to make sure, but I had faith it would be available. I happily moved tables together and started working.

Best idea I've had in months! No killing my knees and working in odd positions and kneeling all over and potentially marking up or damaging my quilt tops.

Both quilts were sandwiched and ready to go 2 hours. Yeah....

Now it's on to practice more FMQing.

scrapinmema

Your local library and church are great places to go when you need to sandwich a quilt.

mighty

Great idea!

Onebyone

Several of my quilting friends meet once a week in the meeting room of our library. We sew all day. The tables are so handy for lay outs and basting. The room is free so take advantage of it. We had our day put on the schedule so it's always available for us.

Mariposa

Great idea!

auntpiggylpn

Our local library will let you use a meeting room but they won't let you spray baste! Odor, overspray, stickiness. . .

wannaquilt1

Yeah I was thinking of the spray basting too... Maybe it would be better to pin baste at the library

nativetexan

they seriously let you use pins on their tables or spray basting there? wow.

Friday1961

I cannot imagine our local library allowing this, especially the spray starch which, at home anyway, always results in overspray on whatever is nearby. Our library staff is not even that accommodating or friendly when you want to check out a book, so I can't think what they would say if you wanted to sandwich a quilt in the meeting room!

Glad for you that yours is more customer friendly, though!

QuiltNama

Auntpigglypn said they would not let them spray baste for obvious reasons. Think pinning would be okay. Never thought to try the library for laying up a quilt. Thanks for the suggestions.