Originally Posted by JANW
Originally Posted by Diana Rainer
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'm going to try her method, but the video uses basting instead of pins on utube. If that doesn't make the difference, I have some 108" backing from Jo-anns in the wing. I hate to give up on my pieced backing, because it uses all the Kafee Fassett coordinating fabrics that are in the quilt and it took a lot of time to make that. I also had to order more fabric and wait for it to come to do the back.
Must be you have the right video, no pins, just hand basting using the trim boards. It does take quite awhile to do, for me anyways, yet seems pretty foolproof. I hope you can try this before giving up on your wonderful pieced backing. Because you have it on the table, somewhat anyways as your's is so big, you should be able to easily keep checking it as you baste. Too bad we all didn't live closer, we could give you a hand with it!
:-)