Originally Posted by JANW
My 2 cents, I used to do all this pinning, and then as I quilted I would have to keep unpinning and adjusting. Now I found if I marked all 3 layer with safety pins at their centers, aligned them , and pinned them together it doesn't move. Then pin the center to start quiltinq with a few pins around and keep smoothing as I go. I'm much happier with the results.
janw, forgive me, have trouble learning without visuals. Do you mean, you just start at center and pin, "quilt", smooth and pin some more, instead of pinning entire thing and pushing around with all that extra weight etc of pins? if so, seems you might end up with more smoothness and less wrinkles. If not, please set me straight, this is a hard part to the whole process. thanks :D