Originally Posted by
IceLeopard
I'm planning to combine board basting and glue basting for a queen quilt (DH's wolf quilt.) I was planning to take it over to his church and use the tables there, and complaining that I'd either have to babysit it while a section dried or run back and forth every hour or so. He said "Why can't you just add more tables? Unroll the first section, glue it down, move in another set of tables, unroll more, glue *that* down, and so on?" The man is a genius! (Or else the spirit of my late father was whispering in his ear!
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I do this by putting several layers of towels on my diningroom table (old and battered oak) and then spread my backing face down on top of that, pin and tape securely around legs so I can start in the center. I apply Elmer’s school glue swizzles in about a four inch grid. Carefully lay batting center on quilt center and smooth to the edges. Swizzle glue again on top of batting, and apply center of top over batting. Smooth carefully, then with a hot dry iron (and a sacrificial cloth, which is just a large scrap of light colored fabric that will get glue on it through the quilt, but I wash and reuse it, so if is not wasting fabric). I press the glue to dry it. I let the whole thing sit for at least an hour or more. While it is drying, I pin around the perimeter of the table to secure the glued area. With a helper, I flip the whole thing over and press from the back, and then I am ready to smooth and glue another area. Works great, and no tucks in the backing. Much easier on my poor arthritic knees.