Originally Posted by noveltyjunkie
Some of the (many, differing) articles I have read recommend doing this to stabilise the sandwich. I certainly would not feel obliged to do it, unless I thought it would look good and enhance the piecing. Do what you like- it's your quilt!
I agree - unless it's part of your quilting design, you don't have to do it to stabilise. I recently did an advanced FMQ workshop with Ferret who is a major award winning English quilter and she said she nearly never SITDs on a DSM - quote 'if you don't do it well, it looks like poo and if you DO, no one can see it, so what's the point?' :mrgreen: Baste well, start somewhere toward the centre and work outwards, bunch the excess quilt up under the throat DON'T roll it as this pulls the top and backing at different rates and away you go. :-D