Originally Posted by quiltmom04
Originally Posted by Coloradoquilter
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I couple of years ago I watched a video of this method and tried it on a baby quilt. I'm still an under experienced machine quilter, but have decided I can't improve unless I just finish my projects the best I can at the point I'm at. Have fun.
Did you machine or hand quilt? I always heard that you shouldn't thread baste to machine quilt.
I machine quilted, she suggests you remove the threads in the area where you'll be quilting so you don't sew over the basting threads. The width of the herringbone stitch really does a nice job of pulling the layers together and comes out easy a section at a time. You get the horizontal and diagonal basting stitches at the same time. It's also faster than conventional basting. I plan on trying it again with a bigger project. The only issue I had was I skimped some on the backing and by the time I was at the top I was really close on it. The first thing she says is NOT to do that.