Originally Posted by Sparky
Originally Posted by azwendyg
Originally Posted by Sparky
What is the Sharon Schamber technique for sandwiching you use? I'm guessing "the bomb" was good rather than a catastrophic.
Yes, I meant "really, really good"! Let me see if I can sort of explain...
she uses two straight boards, rolls the quilt top on one, and the backing on the other. Then she rolls them back out, on a wide table top, a section at a time with the batting in between and bastes with tatting thread as she goes. When she's done with one section, she just rolls out some more and keeps on going. I tried it on the last couple of baby quilts I did and it worked like a charm! No crawling around on the floor across the quilt sandwich and no painful safety pins.
Thanks, but I'm having trouble visualizing. Are the boards on top of each other? Does she just use the boards as weights or is the fabric wound around the boards? How wide are the boards? Does she fasten one end of the quilt top and/or backing to the boards? If so with what, tape?
How do you manipulate the batting between the top and backing at the same time, or is one attached first, then the other?
Maybe she just uses the boards like extensions of her arms to smooth it out?
Sorry, I'm afraid this concept is a little hard for me to explain. Luckily Sharon has some videos up on youtube on how she does this. Just go to youtube.com and search for " sharon schamber quilt basting " and you'll find them.