Originally Posted by
Tartan
I use blue painters tape and just put a few straight pins along the tape if it wants to go walk-about.
Same here. I start in the middle of the quilt (longest row on a diagonal cross hatch) and sew along both sides. Then I butt another up against that one as a spacer, remove the first tape and butt it against the spacer. Once you remove the spacer, you can sew along both sides again. I save both tapes and reuse, shortening them as the length needs to be. Once I get to the corner, I replace both pieces of tape and start again from the first diagonal line to the opposite corner. That way I only use 8 sections of tape for the entire quilt. The stickiness does wear off eventually, but with pinning the tape along the length I have done an 80" x 80" quilt on my DSM with a 6 1/2" throat. Sure makes nice straight quilting lines!