madamekelly

I used to do it on the floor, with lots of pins, then I tried spray besting which worked, but stinks to high heaven, then one of you wonderful quilters turned me on to glue basting. I just put a plastic tarp on my bed in morning, lay out the ironed backing, cover it with the batting, then fold the batting back, and swizzle the straight Elmer's all over the backing as close as I used to pin, then carefully lay the batting back down and raise the other end. I do the same for the top, and doing it in the morning gives it time to dry before bed. Works great and no issues with sewing through it, but I used real skinny lines of glue just in case. Washing takes it all out for me, but I have only used it on cotton, so I don't know how it would act on synthetics.