I basted a quilt for the first time using Sharon's method but used safety pins. I still am not finished quilting did stitch in the ditch around the blocks, now trying to figure out whether to stitch in the ditch around the triangles in the block. Just have a table long enough to hold your boards and the suggestion that TwinRiverFarms "roll the batting around a styrofoam pool noodle" is what I am going to try next time. Do they come in 8ft lengths?