faykilgore

I never crawl on the floor to baste quilts. I use the table method I think might be from Harriet Hargroves book. I fold the back in half, then in half again and press the edge. Now I can locate the center of each side plus true middle. I stretch it wrong side up on a 6' x 3' table and anchor the edges with large gem clips. It helps to have two people to position the batting, folded in half & half, then positioned on a quarter of the back and unfolded precisely. Then the top with centers marked either with iron or safety pins. Now start pinning or thread basting, working from the center out. When the surface is pinned, the sandwich is moved so that the center point of either sides or top/bottom line up with the middle axis of the table. There has to be a tutorial on this that explains better than I do. I use masking tape to place a safety pin at the center of the table and the center of each side for guides.