Wash the @#%&^ out of the fabric!
For the first time ever, I bought real cotton quilting fabric for the backing of a quilt. I also bought the can of basting spray instead of the Elmers spray adhesive. I figured, hey, I'm already $170 into this quilt, what's an extra $2 for the can of glue?!
I sprayed the backing and the top onto the batting and ironed it. I was so excited at how beautiful it was. The next day (last night!), I started quilting the border (S-I-D) and about halfway through the first side, realized that the backing was NOT glued to the batting. So I went back to the old stand-by can of Elmers craft glue and tried it again. Started on the other side of the quilt and had the same problem. So I put some pins in it to keep it together as much as I could.
I whined and threw a fit and sobbed (ok, not really) and realized that I'm just going to have to wash the backing for it to work. It's like teflon! I've wasted 2 evenings on this already and I have to remove quite a few stitches and wash and iron it again.
There's my second gripe of the day.