Originally Posted by MadQuilter
Sharon Schambers says to spray starch the backing. It's worth a try.
She uses pins no further than a palm-width apart, but you may want to use Sharon Schamber's herringbone basting stitch.
This is what I did with my last two. Starched, then used two pieces of trim boards, as she does in her video (utube), and hand basted. They didn't turn out 'perfect', but much better than I've done before. It takes quite awhile though.
I only used the basting spray once, but believe you need to spray small areas at a time, so you can make sure it's all smooth before it sticks together too much. Mine turned out all pruny looking, course I don't remember how well I taped, etc, either. :roll:
Beautiful, beautiful quilt!!! :D