I belong to a handquilting bee and we have our quilts machine basted by a longarm quilting then attach it to a board on 2 sides so that it can be rolled as we work. The other two sides are pinned to another set of boards when we set it up each week. Before we started using a longarm quilter for basting we hand basted it before starting to quilt. Since we take it down and set it up again each week basting seems to help keep everything in place.
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