I am anti-spray of all types, but I do liquid starch occasionally, depending on the amount of fabric I need to starch; however, if it's small pieces of a variety of fabrics (or flimsy fabric) I'm sewing, I use paper to stabilize it. With a small stitch length, the paper is easily removed and saves me having to re-wash all the starched fabric. I somehow accumulate used printer paper, which I save for this purpose; however, when I sew on the bias, I use adding machine paper because it is so porous and tears so easily; therefore no stress to bias.