I used to hand baste using Sharon Schamber's method with boards. The last several large quilts I've done by spray basting with 505 using the same method. The boards help to layer my quilt evenly across a couple of folding tables, and the spray is soooo much faster, and easier on the fingers! It is a bit messy, but even with cleanup time, it's so much faster. I love the way the quilt sandwich stays together for FMQ on my domestic machine. Even the extra large queen size quilts do not shift even a little bit with all the wrestling around to quilt them!
My daughter was here last week and we spray basted 2 queen size and 3 throw/twin size easily in a day. (We even had time for a trip to the LQS.)
Last edited by azwendyg; 03-18-2012 at 06:19 AM.