Originally Posted by elizabeth
To use my basting gun, I bought some of the grid stuff at Lowe's and put enough to cover my cutting table. I don't slide the grid around. I also switched to the micro gun.
Originally Posted by ajw
How about the Dritz basting gun?! Now that was a waste of money!! It is near impossible to keep the fabric layers taught while sliding the grid around underneath so that you can punch the gun through. And then the needle that inserts the little plastic tack through your fabric has such a lorge bore that it actually slices the fabric leaving little holes. I've tried using it twice and kicked myself both times after having to remove all of the little plastic tacks and wind up pin basting anyway. Uuuugh!
I went that route a few years ago, bought the Dritz and their tacs, then bought several packs of a different brand. I found the tacs jammed in the gun to often and caused tons of frustration. I really didn't notice big holes in the quilts, and didn't have problems with the grids underneath because I anchored the layers well, but stopped using it after basting 3 or 4 quilts (all queen size) because the the jamming problem. It did save me hours of time thread basting those quilts though! I hand quilted them, so pins would have been a pain!