I baste with Elmer's glue pretty much all the time now, but before I discovered glue basting on this board, I pin basted dozens of quilts and quilted them on my domestic machine. It's a little slower with the pins since you remove them as you get near to them, but I never had any problems with pin-basted quilts. And the pinning process is a lot slower than either spray or Elmer's glue basting. Now the only time I pin baste is on the very rare occasion that I make a wall hanging that I don't want to wash after quilting. I've spray basted, too, but I prefer the Elmer's method. Spray basting is a little messier. My needle never gums up with either method.