Thanks! This is great advice and so reassuring! I have to look at Sharon Shaumber's video, it must b good if so many people use it.
Last night, I spread it out on my biggest table and all the sides hung off, but I tried to pin baste it from the center out. It seemed to be going well but at the end I saw that something must have shifted because I ran out of backing on one side. I'm sure the backing is big enough so I don't know what happened. So, tomorrow, I'm going to take the pins out and start over, this time I will spread a big sheet out on the floor and try to do it that way. I'm on vacation this week so I want to make a good start on it.
Basting spray sounds like a really good idea. Why don't people use it more? What about those basting guns?