Originally Posted by annesthreads
I posted the other day, after discovering that a quilt I'd sandwiched SO carefully nevertheless had creases in the backing. I'm now wondering how else I might approach this, given that I have a small house with no walls big enough to use, and only one suitable floor area, which is carpeted and therefore not ideal. I've been looking at tutorials on using a table, but none of them seem to say whether you can do this successfully if your quilt is considerably bigger than the table - the videos I've looked at use quilt tops that are conveniently almost exactly the same size as the table top. Can anyone advise, please?
I successfully thread basted a 40 inch by 40 inch wall hanging on my work table, which is 16 inches by 30 inches. I just shifted the PVC pipes I had the top and backing rolled onto side to side as needed.
I use a variation on Sharon Schamber's basting method. My variation is that I baste a lot closer than she does. She bastes using herringbone stitches about four inches long; I baste using herringbone stitches about one inch long.
I figure since I use a floor hoop, my quilt sandwich needs to withstand being hooped at the beginning and unhooped at the end of each quilting session.