I have done about 6 or so quilts with washable glue and have never had to wait more than an hour for the glue to dry and start quilting. I start by laying down the batting and gluing down the top...wait about an hour then flip and do the same with the backside. I use the poly batting for most of my quilts, so ironing is out of the question, but I bet the blow dryer would help speed up the process! I don't think that I ever get to quilt undisturbed, so that hour of drying time is usually spent working on laundry, cooking supper, cleaning up the sewing room, etc. DH says I multi-task too much....LOL.