Originally Posted by
Prism99
Are you talking about using the glue for basting a quilt? Or for basting bindings, glue-basting seams, etc.? If for the latter, I bought the following glue tips at a quilt show and really like them:
http://www.purpledaisiesllc.com/Fine..._Glue_p/69.htm
You screw off the cap and screw on this tip. It makes a very fine line of glue and does not get clogged. Afterwards I screw the original cap back on the bottle and rinse and then soak the glue tip in a jar of water (as it is rather difficult to get all the glue out of the fine tip). I used to use just the Elmer's bottle on bindings and it worked, but I like this fine line of glue much better for bindings.
I bought the metal tips from Sharon Schamber and had trouble with the metal tip screwing onto the glue bottle properly. Sometimes the glue would ooze out around the tip and make a huge mess. Then I bought plastic tips from her daughter's website: PurpleDaisiesLLC. These work much better, since it's the whole dispenser you screw onto the bottle (not just the tip). I do remove this when I'm done, soak it in a glass of water to get the glue out and recap the bottle with it's original dispenser and cap. So far I've only used this glue for matching a print when I have to seam two pieces together and for attaching bindings. It sure works slick.