Nancy Zieman, host of Sewing with Nancy, a U.S. sewing program uses small pieces of fusible web instead of using pins. She tears off peices and puts on the wrong side of the top and backing,uses a small crafting iron and fuses the web to the fabric. It's such small peices of fusible webbing used, the quilt does not become stiff. Check out Sewing with Nancy's latest video's on her website, it's about quilting. It might give you some great tips.